 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels...  Essays, First Series - Page 70by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat...carries ruins to ruins. Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 pages
...man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused or to get somewhat...carries ruins to ruins. Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 pages
...man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused or to get somewhat...himself and grows old even in youth among old things. RALPH WALDO EMERSON 321 In Thebes, in Palmyra, his will and mind have become old and dilapidated as... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat...and dilapidated as they. He carries ruins to ruins. Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat...and dilapidated as they. He carries ruins to ruins. Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat...and dilapidated as they. He carries ruins to ruins. Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home... | |
 | Robert Ernest Spiller - 1926 - 470 pages
...of Emerson in connection with travel, the famous passage from Self-Reliance comes at once to mind: "He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which...himself, and grows old even in youth among old things. ... He carries ruins to ruins." Emerson was faithful to his doctrine ; never was an American so little... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1162 pages
...man is first domesticated, or ao does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat...carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in as youth among old things. In Thebes, in Palmyra, his will and mind have become old and dilapidated... | |
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