 Reason from her inviolable seat pronounces on the passing men and events of to-day, — this he shall hear and promulgate. These being his functions, it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself, and to defer never to the popular cry. He and he only...  Retrospect of Western Travel - Page 208by Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 178 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 pages
...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,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 pages
...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,... | |
 | Norman Foerster, William Whatley Pierson, William Whatley Pierson (Jr.) - 1917 - 342 pages
...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,... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 530 pages
...his duties without thought of reward in money or praise. He must feel all confidence in himself. " Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom." Signs of the interest that the scholar is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...defer never to the popular cry. He and he only knows the world. The world of any moment Mr"tlwlHefeW appearance. Some great decorum, some fetish of a government,...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,... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1923 - 248 pages
...concludes the speaker, to say something of the scholar's duties. They may all be comprised in self-trust. Let him not quit his belief that a pop-gun is a pop-gun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. Let him be free and brave. The world is still... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1923 - 548 pages
...that of nature, that of the past, that of life. All of them demand that he have confidence in himself. "Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a pop-gun, though the anointed and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom." The " Divinity School Address."... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...world. The world of any moment is the merest appearance. Some great 1 English astronomer (1646-1719). decorum, some fetish of a government, some ephemeral...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,... | |
 | Leo Martin Shea - 1926 - 140 pages
...subscribe to the fundamental principle which justified all the rest of Emerson's thought: "let a man not quit his belief that a pop-gun is a pop-gun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom." Lowell was breaking or had broken away from... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy. Xgt him not quit his belief that, a. popgun is a popgun, though tEe ancient and honorable-QLthfi-£arth affinrLiitQ bejthe crack of doom! In silence,in steadiness,... | |
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