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" They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. "
Essays, orations and lectures - Page 69
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 385 pages
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

John Bartlett - 1903 - 1186 pages
...ought to die." Sacri/fce. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail ? Boston. If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.1 Nature. Addreues and Lecturet The American Scholar. There is no great and no small* To the Soul...
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Investigations of the Department of Psychology and Education of ..., Volumes 1-3

University of Colorado. Department of Psychology and Education - 1903 - 564 pages
...manikins. The chief business of the world and the final end of creation is the building of man, for "if the single man plant himself indomitably on his...and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.i.' In this connection Emerson gives emphasis to the dependence of the scholar upon the Universal...
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Nature ; Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 pages
...which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides. What is the remedy ? They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful .__ now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 pages
...which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides. What is the remedy ? They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful i V? now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself...
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Modern English Prose

George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 pages
...the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, — some of them suicides. What is the remedy? They did not...there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Patience, — patience ; with the shades of all the good and great for company ; and for solace the...
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A History of Literature in America

Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 478 pages
...Scholar," of which the closing sentences are among the most articulate assertions of his individualism:— "If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Patience,— patience; with the shades of all the good and great for coni])any; and for solace the...
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Routine and Ideals: By Le Baron Russell Briggs

Le Baron Russell Briggs - 1904 - 264 pages
..." We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds." " If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." " We are parlor soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born." "But we sit and...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: society & solitude. Letters & social aims ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 564 pages
...which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust — some of them suicides. What is the remedy ? [They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as • - J hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career, do , i not yet see, that, if the single...
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Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders ..., Volume 14

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 pages
...which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust — some of them suicides. What is the remedy? They did not...there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Patience — patience ; with the shades of all the good and great [for company; and for solace, the...
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Bulletin of the Grand Rapids Public Library, Volumes 6-9

1910 - 734 pages
...to Emerson's allusion to Thoreau in his 'Nature: Addresses and Lectures — The American Scholar.' 'If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him'. A variant of the old French saying 'Tout vient a qui sail attendre' popularized by Disraeli in Tancred...
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