 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
 | Henry Seidel Canby - 1927 - 336 pages
...and often subtle but they do not often 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 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 - 1983 - 1196 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... | |
 | Terence Dickinson - 1998 - 180 pages
...or onIy just happened. Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn L t'um a century ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "The man in the street does not know a star in the sky." No surveys have ever been conducted to determine by what percentage Emerson was right, but Shakespeare... | |
 | Priscilla Faith Rhodes - 2002 - 390 pages
...fine Geneva watch, but loses his ability to tell the hour by the sun. He has a nautical almanac, but does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little. His notebooks impair his memory ... This passage makes me wonder: what have we lost since Emerson wrote... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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 insuranceoffice increases the number... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 284 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...solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as litde; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note,books impair... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 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... | |
 | Erin Gruwell - 2007 - 808 pages
...use of his feet. He is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle. . . His notebooks impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit;...insurance-office increases the number of accidents . . . — RALPH WALDO EMERSON, FROM HIS BOOK SELF-RELIANCE (1839) The city is the teacher of the man.... | |
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