 ... 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
 | Jopi Nyman - 1997 - 396 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." Neither is Emerson the only representative of gendered individualism within the Western or American... | |
 | Terry Roberts - 1998 - 147 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...already. He has not one chance but a hundred chances. (1979, p. 75) We might add to our profile of the successful 21st century individual that he or she... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 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...self-trust, new powers shall appear; that a man is the word made flesh, born to shed healing to the nations; that he should be ashamed of our compassion,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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...self-trust, new powers shall appear; that a man is the word made flesh, born to shed healing to the nations; that he should be ashamed of our compassion,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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... | |
 | Micki McGee - 2005 - 304 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...already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances. 28 Pursuit of self and the pursuit of a specific occupation are not equivalent. Emerson's endorsement... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 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...self-trust, new powers shall appear; that a man is the word made flesh, born to shed healing to the nations; that he should be ashamed of our compassion,... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 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...self-trust, new powers shall appear; that a man is the word made flesh, born to shed healing to the nations, that he should be ashamed of our compassion,... | |
 | 1911 - 410 pages
...Christ, our Healer, our Saviour. THE SELF-RELIANT MAN THE SAVIOR OF HIMSELF AND A TEACHER OF THE WORLD. Let a Stoic open the resources of man and tell men...self-trust, new powers shall appear; that a man is the word made flesh, born to shed healing to the nations; that he should be ashamed of our compassion,... | |
 | 1908 - 530 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... | |
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