 An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome"; and all history resolves...  The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 49by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | 1905 - 566 pages
...t_— i THE LIFE AND WORK OF GENERAL SANBORN. BY GEN. HENRY \V. CHILDS. ''All history," says Emerson, "resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." The history of New England is the biography of the "stout and earnest persons" who, in senate chamber... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...Fox ; Methodism, of Wesley ; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio^ Milton called " the height of Rome " ; and all history resolves itself very easily into the...Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under hia feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called " the height of Rome " ; and all history resolves itself very easily into the...peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity -boy, a bastard, or an interloper, in the world which exists for him. But the man in the street,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called " the height of Rome "; and all history resolves itself very easily into the...Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under Ins feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...Fox ; Methodism, of Wesley ; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome ; " and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.1 Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal,... | |
 | 1877 - 610 pages
...of such gross neglect, really civilized I Mr. Emerson in one of his matchless essays tells us that "All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons," and again, "Every institution is the lengthened shadow of one man." Are not these gems of "glittering... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...of Fox ; Methodism, of Wesley ; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome"; and all history resolves itself very easily into the...feet. Let him not, peep or steal, or skulk up and down witli the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper, in the world which exists for him. But... | |
 | John Swett - 1880 - 366 pages
...which these evoke. To the juvenile reader all history is biography." " All history," says Emerson, " resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." 16. " Of all departments of early teaching," says Bain, " none is so unmanageable as history. Its protean... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 pages
...and the centers of the Avorld's advancement. " An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man," and " all history resolves itself very easily into...the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." 2 " Mankind have, he says, in all ages, attached themselves to a few persons, who, either by the quality... | |
 | Alfred Janes - 1882 - 72 pages
...Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself very easily into the...peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity boy, a bastard, or an interloper, in the world which exists for him. But the man in the street,... | |
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