 The ox must be taken from the plough, and the horse from the cart, the hundred acres of the farm must be spaded, and the man must walk wherever boats and locomotives will not carry him. Even the insect world was to be defended — that had been too long...  Complete Works - Page 240by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 404 pages
...animal manures in farming, and the tyranny of man over brute nature: these abuses polluted his food. The ox must be taken from the plough, and the horse...society for the protection of ground-worms, slugs and mosquitoes was to be incorporated without delay. With these appeared the adepts of homoeopathy, of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...animal manures in farming; and the tyranny of man over brute nature ; these abuses polluted his food. The ox must be taken from the plough, and the horse...society for the protection of groundworms, slugs, and mosquitoes was to be incorporated without delay. With these appeared the adepts of homoeopathy, of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 382 pages
...animal manures in farming; and the tyranny of man over brute nature; these abuses polluted his food. The ox must be taken from the plough, and the horse...locomotives will not carry him. Even the insect world was to be/defended, — that had been too long neglected, and a society for the protection of ground-worms,... | |
 | David S. Reynolds - 2000 - 288 pages
...animal manures in farming, and the tyranny of men over brute nature; these abuses polluted his food. The ox must be taken from the plough and the horse...carry him. Even the insect world was to be defended. . . . Others assailed particular vocations, as that of the lawyer, that of the merchant, or the manufacturer,... | |
 | Joel Porte - 2008 - 256 pages
...animal manures in farming, and the tyranny of man over brute nature; these abuses polluted his food. The ox must be taken from the plough and the horse...incorporated without delay. With these appeared the adepts of homeopathy, of hydropathy, of mesmerism, of phrenology. On and on goes Emerson's list of the things... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 228 pages
...animal manures in farming: and the tyranny of man over brute nature: these abuses polluted his food. The ox must be taken from the plough, and the horse from the cart, the hundred acres of the ( 72 ) farm must be spaded, and the man must walk wherever boats and locomotives will not earn' him.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2004 - 457 pages
...tyranny of man over orate nature; these ahnsea poEated Ms food. The ox must be taken from the plongh, and the horse from the cart, the hundred acres of the farm mnst he spaded, and the man mast walk wherever boats and locomotives will not carry him. Even the insect... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1967 - 572 pages
...animal manures in farming, and the tyranny of man over brute nature ; these abuses polluted his food. The ox must be taken from the plough and the horse...long neglected, and a society for the protection of ground- worms, slugs, and mosquitoes was to be incorporated without delay. With these appeared the... | |
 | John Matteson - 2007 - 506 pages
...in our diet, that we eat and drink damnation. . . . Even the insect world was to be defended . . . and a society for the protection of ground-worms,...and mosquitos was to be incorporated without delay. ^ In these reform movements, Emerson quipped, "nothing was more remarkable than the discontent they... | |
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