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" To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. "
Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 15
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pages
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...as that of the world on the human mind, they do not vary the result. CHAPTER I. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...as that of the world on the human mind, they do not vary the result. CHAPTER I. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...those heavenly worlds will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in...
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 5-6

1848 - 916 pages
...seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its candle." " To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with mo. But if a man would bo alono, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly...
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The Journal of Education for Upper Canada, Volume 2

1849 - 206 pages
...to the path from which thy deed has drawn them. THE SUBLIME SOLITUDE OF NATURE. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. 1 am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 pages
...the fact. No chart of nature hangs up in his windows to shut out nature herself. How well he says : " If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars....those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man in...
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The Spirit Messenger: A Semi-monthly Magazine Devoted to Spiritual ..., Volume 1

1850 - 426 pages
...'and Cardinals indicate their grief in purple.— Harmonic, of Nature. The Stars. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber, as from society. I am not weary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone let him look at...
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Merrimack: Or, Life at the Loom; a Tale

Day Kellogg Lee - 1854 - 378 pages
...about the stars, if you please, Miss O'Warden. That's a bit of beauty, I'm sure it is." Julia road—" If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars....those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in...
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The Christian journal

1854 - 594 pages
...ufo a gtar and dwells apart." Emerson has said, "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as ouch from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and "We, though nobody is with me." Are we alone when the living creatures of the imagination, like an...
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The Collected Works of ... P. ...

Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...the fact. No chart of nature Langs up in his windows to shut out nature herself. How well he says : " If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars....those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man in...
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Orations, Lectures and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...that of the world on the human mind, they do not vary the result. CHAPTER I. '"TO go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in...
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