It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Essays and Poems of Emerson - Page 155by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1862 - 586 pages
...pupils as they write. THE VOICE OP SOLITUDE HEARD IN SOCIETY. — RW Emerson says and truly, "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it...perfect sweetness the independence 'of solitude." Greatness is the effect of resolutely carrying out in society, the calm and solemn counsels of meditative... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...the world to live after the world's i opinion ; it is easy in solitude to look after I your own ; bat the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd,...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Етеггок. ACTIONS— Justice in. It is vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the... | |
| Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own : but the great man is he, who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
| Eliza Cook - 1865 - 216 pages
...greater part of the world might subscribe it, without deviating from the strictest veracity. IT is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it...great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps the independence of solitude. THERE are men who, by long consulting only their own inclination, have... | |
| James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 506 pages
...is easy to live in the world after the world's opinion : it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he, who, in the midst of...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. — Emerson. Philip Henry used to say, ' If the worship of God be not in the house, write " Lord, have... | |
| 1867 - 672 pages
...select a few characteristic examples. ' Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.' ' The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd,...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.' ' We grant that human life is mean, but how did we find out that it was mean ? What is the universal... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...descriptive or argumentative passages, generally requires a short pause after it; as, " It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — Emerson. In passionate passages, no pause is required after the disjunctive; as, "It is not linen... | |
| Charles John Plumptre - 1870 - 236 pages
...be used on the positive or absolute member, and the rising on the negative or relative. " It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it...great man is he, who in the midst of the crowd keeps the independence of solitude." Rule XX. — All sentences that are ironical in character should have... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - 1871 - 422 pages
...in descriptive or argumentative passages, generally requires a short pause after it; as, "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it...solitude to live after our own ; but . . . the great i;11iii is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."... | |
| 1871 - 730 pages
..." Of all sad words of tongue or pea, The saddest are these : • It might hare been.' " IT is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; lint the great man is he who in the raidxt of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
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