What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep... Essays, First Series - Page 83by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
| Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the 510 naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...the health of the two men, and you shall see that his aboriginal strength the white man has lost. If the traveler tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...the health of the two men, and you shall see that his aboriginal strength the white man has lost. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch,... | |
| Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New-Zealander, whose prop• erty is a club, a ' spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch,... | |
| John Horne - 1904 - 172 pages
...arts and loses old instincts. . . . Compare the health of the well-clad, reading, thinking American and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club,...and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under ! . . . The civilised man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He has a fine Geneva... | |
| Mary Minerva Barrows - 1905 - 208 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the wellclad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...compare the health of the two men and you shall see that his aboriginal strength, the white man has lost. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the wellclad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, 45 whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under. But... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...the well-clad, reading, writing, think20 ing American, with a watch, a pencil and a bill of exchange3 in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose...the health of the two men and you shall see that the 25 white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
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