 | Robert Ernest Spiller - 1926 - 470 pages
...of Emerson in connection with travel, the famous passage from Self-Reliance comes at once to mind: "He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which...himself, and grows old even in youth among old things. ... He carries ruins to ruins." Emerson was faithful to his doctrine ; never was an American so little... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1927 - 840 pages
...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...and dilapidated as they. He carries ruins to ruins. "But the rage of traveling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...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...to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carn', travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things. In Thebes, in Palmyra,... | |
 | Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky, Shelley Fisher Fishkin - 1996 - 524 pages
...globe for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, and does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows." And there is a kind of traveling more terrible than the transatlantic shuttle: the vagabond intellect,... | |
 | Jonathan Levin - 1999 - 244 pages
...pure exoticism. Emerson's brief against traveling is stated in "Self-Reliance," where he suggests that he who "travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which...himself, and grows old even in youth among old things" (EL 278). Transition should instead bring the familiar into contact with the unknown, a process that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...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...carries ruins to ruins. Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at... | |
 | Juliana Geran Pilon - 2007 - 310 pages
...declared, is the soul's way of running away from its own emptiness. Emerson warns against the man who "travels away from himself, and grows old even in...his will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they."7 The aura of history and tradition loses much of its luster, charm, and power when described... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - 2007 - 434 pages
...sense of purpose and intelligence. A close reading of the passage reveals Emerson's belief that someone who "travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which...he does not carry, travels away from himself" and will find his soul grows weary through the useless search. 26. D. The writer believes that travel enables... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...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 69 greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry,... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 430 pages
...company instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks, putting them once more somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from...and dilapidated as they. He carries ruins to ruins. Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home... | |
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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. He who travels... 
