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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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The Poetics of Transition: Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism

Jonathan Levin - 1999 - 244 pages
...pure exoticism. Emerson's brief against traveling is stated in "Self-Reliance," where he suggests that he who "travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which...himself, and grows old even in youth among old things" (EL 278). Transition should instead bring the familiar into contact with the unknown, a process that...
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Compensation and Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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...
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Why America is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice

Juliana Geran Pilon - 2007 - 310 pages
...declared, is the soul's way of running away from its own emptiness. Emerson warns against the man who "travels away from himself, and grows old even in...his will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they."7 The aura of history and tradition loses much of its luster, charm, and power when described...
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McGraw-Hill's PRAXIS I and II, 2nd Ed.

Laurie Rozakis - 2007 - 434 pages
...sense of purpose and intelligence. A close reading of the passage reveals Emerson's belief that someone who "travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which...he does not carry, travels away from himself" and will find his soul grows weary through the useless search. 26. D. The writer believes that travel enables...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays for First-year Students Selected by the ...

University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 430 pages
...company instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks, putting them once more somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from...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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A Compendium of American Literature, Chronologically Arranged: With ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 798 pages
...somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat whieh he does not earry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth...things. In Thebes, in Palmyra, his will and mind have beeome old and dilapidated as they. He earries ruins to ruins. Travelling is a fool's paradise. We...
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