 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...  Twelve Essays - Page 69by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 pages
...fine Geneva watch, but he has lost the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when...impair his memory: his libraries overload his wit; the insurance-office increases the number of accidents; and it may be a question whether machinery does... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...fine Geneva watch, but he has lost the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when...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. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...fine Geneva watch, but he 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...impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit; the insurance-office increases the number of accidents ; and it may be a question whether machinery does... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...fine Geneva watch, but he 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...impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit; the insurance-office increases the number of accidents; and it may be a question whether machinery does... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...fine Geneva watch, but he 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...impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit; the insurance-office increases the number of accidents; and it may be a question whether machinery does... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 1983 - 1196 pages
...fine Geneva watch, but he 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...impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit; the insurance-office increases the number of accidents; and it may be a question whether machinery does... | |
 | 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... | |
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