 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 69by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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... | |
 | K. M. George - 1992 - 762 pages
...is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he goes as the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities...a sovereign and not like an interloper or a valet. '1 have no churlish objection', continues Emerson, to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes... | |
 | Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky, Shelley Fisher Fishkin - 1996 - 524 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...sovereign and not like an interloper or a valet." (I take it that Emerson does not use the word "paradise" lightly.) Melville, Twain, and especially James... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 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,...a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet He carries ruins to ruins. Travelling is a fool's paradise. —SELF-RELIANCE Do you agree with Emerson... | |
 | Annamaria Formichella Elsden - 2004 - 179 pages
...— arises again a short time later in the essay, when Emerson describes the wise traveler as one who "visits cities and men like a sovereign and not like an interloper or a valet" (186). He makes this concession grudgingly. Ideally, Americans would not travel at all: "It is for... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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... | |
 | William Barillas - 2006 - 280 pages
...his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still ... he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits...sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet" (277). Wright struggled throughout his career to balance his love of poetic traditions ancient and... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 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... | |
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