Hidden fields
Books Books
" I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. "
Essays: First series - Page 69
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 pages
Full view - About this book

The Wall Street Point of View

Henry Clews - 1900 - 316 pages
...creation as a moth around a lamp, but by sticking fast where they were, like an axis of the earth. I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation...domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. Traveling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys...
Full view - About this book

A Sportswoman in India: Personal Adventures and Experiences of Travel in ...

Isabel Savory - 1900 - 544 pages
...stays at home, or, if he travels, is at home wherever he goes, and makes men feel it by his face ; that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, not like a valet or an interloper." Too often travelling is a Fool's Paradise. I am miserable ; I want...
Full view - About this book

Essays. 1901

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance,...domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be VOL. II. V amused, or to get somewhat...
Full view - About this book

Introductory Lessons in English Literature: For High Schools and Academies

Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...foreign lands, he is at home still and shall make men sensible by the expression of his coun-425 tenance that he goes, the missionary of wisdom and virtue,...circumnavigation of the globe for the purposes of art, of study, and430 benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding...
Full view - About this book

History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he goes, the 73 missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign and not like an interloper...
Full view - About this book

So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and is not gadding abroad from himself, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance,...domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does...
Full view - About this book

A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ...

Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 470 pages
...duties, on any occasion, call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance,...domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does...
Full view - About this book

The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance...domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does...
Full view - About this book

Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance...domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does...
Full view - About this book

Irish Literature, Volume 7

Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - 544 pages
...duties, or any occasion calls him from his home into foreign lands, he is still at home, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he goes the missionary of wisdom, of virtue, and visits cities like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet." Foremost among...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF