 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
 | Jo Ann Oravec - 1996 - 414 pages
[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ] | |
 | 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... | |
| |
