 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
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Amos Reno Morris, Melvin Theodor Solve, Carlton Frank Wells - 1928 - 612 pages
...and the conclusions of history. Whatsoever oracles the human heart, in all emergencies, in all Bolemn hours, has uttered as its commentary on the world...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,... | |
 | 1928 - 704 pages
...be a scholar." To cheer the modern scholar on his way Dr. Butler offers the advice given by Emerson: "Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of earth affirm it to be the crack of doom." Prize J^ovels BARNUM missed a great opportunity... | |
 | 1928 - 922 pages
...Modern Teacher." The text of his homily was Emerson's admonition to the American scholar that he should not "quit his belief that a pop-gun is a pop-gun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be crack of doom." Mr. Boynton first discussed the leading characteristics... | |
 | 1928 - 924 pages
...Modern Teacher." The text of his homily was Emerson's admonition to the American scholar that he should not "quit his belief that a pop-gun is a pop-gun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be crack of doom." Mr. Boynton first discussed the leading characteristics... | |
 | Howard Evans Kiefer, Milton Karl Munitz - 1970 - 364 pages
...neither can nor should control, I hope we will manifest a measure of Ralph Waldo Emerson's wisdom: "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." I stress again the fact that the practicing... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1971 - 316 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,... | |
 | 1885 - 1094 pages
...unawed amid papier-mache earthquakes and avalanches of blank verse, maintaining, as Emerson says, ' that a pop-gun is a pop-gun, though the ancient and honourable of this world affirm it to be the crack of doom.' When his judgment is at variance with that of the majority,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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,... | |
 | William G. Rowland - 1996 - 254 pages
...the world only when he sees that social upheavals such as war and economic dislocation are ephemera: [I]t becomes him to feel all confidence in himself,...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. (Collected Works 1:63) In the panic year... | |
 | W. Clark Gilpin - 1996 - 248 pages
...aspired amidst custom and common sense to have "seen something truly," and must hold to what he saw: "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."57 Intuition, Emerson thought, was itself... | |
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