 ... professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to' Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He...  Essays - Page 69by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession,' for he does not postpone...not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and... | |
 | Marietta College - 1906 - 162 pages
...feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession' for he does not postpone his life but lives already." Never was there a broader or a livelier spirit of enterprise, and I am proud to be the husband of one... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not ' studying a profession,' for he does not postpone his...already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances. 20 Let a Stoic open the resources of man and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must... | |
 | 1908 - 564 pages
...is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in 'not studying a profession,' for he does not postpone his life, but lives already." Never was there a broader or livelier spirit of enterprise, and I am proud to be the husband of one... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 pages
...is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not " studying a profession," for he does not postpone his...not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not " studying a profession," for he does not postpone his...not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 pages
...but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man and tell men they are not leaning...must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self -trust, new powers shall appear; that a man is the word made flesh, born to shed healing to the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession,' for he does not postpone...his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, 15 but a hundred chances. Let a Stoic0 open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not " study- 10 ing a profession," for he does not postpone his life,...He has not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a Stoic2 open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 614 pages
...Boston. He has not one chance but a hundred chances. Now let a stern preacher arise who shall reveal the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows. . . . A great act of much import to the new philosophical opinions is the garden discovery that a potato,... | |
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