 Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe ; the equinox he knows as little ; and the whole bright calendar of the year...  Essays - Page 86by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the...calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory ; his libraries overload his wit ; the insurance office increases the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the...calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory ; his libraries overload his wit ; the insurance office increases the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the...calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory ; his libraries overload his wit ; the insurance-office increases the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of tho information when he wants it, the man in the street docs not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not...calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory ; his libraries overload his wit ; the insurance office increases the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the...does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached, cast down their colors and from enemies became friends,... | |
 | 1879 - 358 pages
...fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. * * * His notebooks impair his memory ; his libraries overload bis wit. * * * Every stoic was a stoic;... | |
 | 1880 - 376 pages
...lost the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the...calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. This is surely true. This kind of knowledge we have in a great measure lost, and shall probably never... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...lost the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the...calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory ; his libraries overload his wit ; the insurance office increases the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the...calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory ; his libraries overload his wit ; the insurance office increases the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the...calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory ; his libraries overload his wit ; the insurance-office increases the... | |
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