 | Eliza Cook - 1865 - 216 pages
...— the greater part of the world might subscribe it, without deviating from the strictest veracity. IT is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps the independence of solitude.... | |
 | 1867 - 672 pages
...select a few characteristic examples. ' Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.' ' The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd,...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.' ' We grant that human life is mean, but how did we find out that it was mean ? What is the universal... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 506 pages
...think they know what is your duty better than you know it yourself. It is easy to live in the world after the world's opinion : it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he, who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...when used in descriptive or argumentative passages, generally requires a short pause after it; as, " It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but . . . the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness... | |
 | Charles John Plumptre - 1870 - 236 pages
...inflection should be used on the positive or absolute member, and the rising on the negative or relative. " It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he, who in the midst of the crowd keeps the independence of solitude."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | 1871 - 730 pages
...but, alas — " Of all sad words of tongue or pea, The saddest are these : • It might hare been.' " IT is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; lint the great man is he who in the raidxt of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1871 - 422 pages
...after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but . . . the great i;11iii is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — Emerson. In passionate passages, no pause is required after the disjunctive ; as, "It is not linen... | |
 | 1873 - 806 pages
...life ; and while we are busily watching at one door, he comes in at another. Сохаштвяск. — It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of a crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1873 - 860 pages
...£l«ani of light which Hashes i his mind from within, more than lustre of the lirmanieiit of baidsand It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to li\ . alter our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst ot the crowd keeps wit. perfect sweetness... | |
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It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 
