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
| John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 pages
...be misunderstood. Ibid. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Ibid. » The man in the street does not know a star in the sky. Ibid. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Ibid. Everything in Nature contains all the powers... | |
| Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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 notebooks impair his memory ; his libraries overload his wit ; the ' ' ' be a question whether machinery... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...lost his 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...observe ; the equinox he knows as little ; and the 25 whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory... | |
| Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 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 street does not know a star in the sky s» The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright calendar... | |
| Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 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 number... | |
| Brander Matthews - 1922 - 314 pages
...often subtle, but only rarely do they fall precisely into the form of the aphorism. He tells us that " the man in the street does not know a star in the sky"; — but that is not quite a maxim, even if it escapes being a truism. He asserts that "it is as impossible... | |
| University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 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 number... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...support, nf muscle, tie has a of the skill to tell the'hour by the sun. 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 number... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure riezes intertwine The viol, the violet, and the vine....Revelation). Resignedly beneath the sky The melanchloly note-books impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit; the insurance-office increases the number... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical manac he has, and so being sure of the information when he ants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the y. The solstice he does not observe ; the equinox he knows little; and the whole bright calendar of... | |
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