...country than that of the seer who said of the scholar to a company of scholars more than fifty years ago, "Let him not quit his belief that a pop-gun is a pop-gun, although the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom." This was only another...

...country than that of the seer who said of the scholar to a company of scholars more than fifty years ago, "Let him not quit his belief that a pop-gun is a pop-gun, although the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom." This was only another...

...ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if arl depended on this particular up or down. The odds are...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,...

...time, which are the nettles and tangling vines in the way of the self -relying and self -directed ; and the state of virtual hostility in which he seems...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,...

...world of any moment is the merest appearance. Some great decorum, some fetish of a government, gome ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,...

...immediate fame. In the long period of his preparation he must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts, incurring the disdain of the able...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,...

...immediate fame. In the long period of his preparation he must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts, incurring the disdain of the able...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,...

...nation bears me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years. . . . These being his functions, it becomes him to feel...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom." . Dr. Holmes called this speech of Emerson's...

...nation bears me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years. . . . These being his functions, it becomes him to feel...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom." 19 Dr. Holmes called this speech of Emerson's...

...now for two hundred years. . . . These being his functions, it becomes him to feel all con- I fidence in himself, and to defer never to the ' popular cry....that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom." '9 Dr. Holmes called this speech of Emerson's...