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" 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 70
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 290 pages
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

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...
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American Literature

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...
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The American in England During the First Half Century of Independence

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...
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Century Readings for a Course in American Literature, Volume 2

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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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...things. In Thebes, in Palmyra, his rill and mind have become old and dilapidated as they. He arries ruins to ruins. Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover o us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with...
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The Rise of American Civilization, Volume 1

Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1927 - 840 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. "But the rage of traveling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action....
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Russia and America: A Philosophical Comparison: Development and Change of ...

W.J. Gavin, J.E. Blakeley - 1976 - 138 pages
...Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, pp. 275-6: "The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home . . . Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places." 207 Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy, p. 61. 208 James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, p....
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The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: First Series. Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...1841 46.14 still, and shall] 1847; still, and is not gadding abroad from himself, and shall 1841 46.26 paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At] 1847; paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At 1841 The revised...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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 which he does not carn', travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things. In Thebes, in Palmyra,...
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Selves at Risk: Patterns of Quest in Contemporary American Letters

Ihab Hassan - 1990 - 256 pages
...wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him"; and prompting Emerson to remark: "Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. . . . My giant goes with me wherever I go."48 The giant of the self— the "heavy bear," Roethke calls...
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