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" If any man consider the present aspects of what is called by distinction society, he will see the need of these ethics. The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous, desponding whimperers. "
Essays - Page 68
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pages
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others ! 20 33. If any man consider the present aspects of what is...of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and 25 afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall...
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Emerson: His Contribution to Literature

David Lee Maulsby - 1911 - 188 pages
...what is called by distinction society, he will see the need of these ethics. The sinew and heart of a man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous,...of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons."1 But still the balance is on the right side. " Gentlemen," he said in 1 844, " there is a...
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Emerson: His Contribution to Literature

David Lee Maulsby - 1911 - 190 pages
...circumstances. Emerson's optimism is more thoroughgoing. He was not blind to the slow progress of mankind. " If any man consider the present aspects of what is...see the need of these ethics. The sinew and heart of a man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous, desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth,...
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The Contribution of Emerson to Literature

David Lee Maulsby - 1911 - 190 pages
...circumstances. Emerson's optimism is more thoroughgoing. He was not blind to the slow progress of mankind. " If any man consider the present aspects of what is...see the need of these ethics. The sinew and heart of a man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous, desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth,...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others ! If any man consider the present aspects of what is called by 20 distinction society ', he will see the need of these ethics. The sinew and heart of man seem to...
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The Methodist Review, Volume 80

1898 - 1032 pages
...contentment of the times. ... If any man consider the present aspects of society he will see the need of ethics. The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn...and we are become timorous, desponding whimperers." He said all the American geniuses " lacked nerve and dagger." Again he wrote, "In all my lectures I...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others. If any man consider the present aspects of what is...distinction society, he will see the need of these 20 ethics. The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers....
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The Craftsman: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine in the Interest of ..., Volume 15

1909 - 848 pages
...thought. "The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out," declared the virile philosopher, "and we have become timorous, desponding whimperers. We are afraid...fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. We want men and women, who shall renovate life and our social state; but we see that most natures are...
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An American Bible

Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...society, law to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others. <I If any man consider the present aspects of what is...of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect reasons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures...
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My Little Book of Emerson: Being an Introd. to Emerson and a Breviary of His ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. —SELF-RELIANCE + We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid...other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. . . . Our housekeeping is mendicant; our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have...
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