 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 69by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 385 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Cloyd Bowman, Louis Ignatius Bredvold, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick - 1915 - 518 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 perspective... | |
 | Oscar W. Firkins - 1915 - 404 pages
...and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom." Or that other far-resounding cry, " If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." Less than a year later came the Divinity School Address. Of this momentous but tranquil discourse,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 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,... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 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...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... | |
 | 1916 - 414 pages
...and heat and light are the receptacles of love and wisdom. Contrast with these something of Emerson : If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Patience — patience. Or: Or: The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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,... | |
 | Kenneth S. Lynn - 1984 - 242 pages
...turn into drudges, or die of their disgust, some of them by suicide. The trouble is that they do not see, "and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." Although "Man Thinking," as Emerson called the brave figure of whom he was speaking, must be willing... | |
 | Joyce A. Rowe - 1988 - 172 pages
..."New World future."13 Thus Emerson can assure his audience that if the new man, the American, would "plant himself indomitably on his instincts and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."14 This American Colossus bestriding his "narrow world" provides us with an image that seems to... | |
 | David Baker - 1994 - 288 pages
...as an important center of what Pound would have called a "vortex." As Emerson said a century before, "If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the great world will come round to him." And come it did, first to the pages of the Fugitive and later... | |
 | Pascal Covici - 1997 - 252 pages
...declaration of intellectual independence, but it rang with an almost solipsistic self-sufficiency, too. "[I]f the single man plant himself indomitably on...there abide, the huge world will come round to him" (79). "Books are for the scholars' idle times" (68). "I had better never see a book than to be warped... | |
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