 ... something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the wellclad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property...  Out-door Papers - Page 109by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1886 - 370 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose poverty is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under! But compare the health of...traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad axe, and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch,... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 pages
...pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under. But compare the health of...traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broadax and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch,... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under! But compare the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveler tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under! But compare the health of the two men and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveler tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...pocket, and the naked New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under ! But compare the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage wH§... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under. But compare the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under! But compare the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | 1888 - 536 pages
...pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a. shed to sleep under. But compare the health...traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad axe, and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch,... | |
 | Samuel Otter - 1999 - 390 pages
...civilized progress, Emerson imagines delivering a blow and watching the native flesh renew itself: "But compare the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | Mark G. Vásquez - 2003 - 424 pages
...pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under. But compare the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
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