 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel...  Everybody's Writing-desk Book - Page 115by Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oscar W. Firkins - 1915 - 404 pages
..."Imitation is suicide," and see how deftly it is wrought into the solid fabric of a sentence such as this : "There is a time in every man's education when he...better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed... | |
 | Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 pages
...self-reliance. "There is a time in every man's education," he writes in his essay "Self-Reliance," "when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide" (W, 2: 46). As Porter suggests, we should not be surprised that he shows "little patience with the... | |
 | Richard G. Geldard - 1999 - 200 pages
...reading. An example of such a slide might be facing the difficulty of the following from "Self-Reliance": There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed... | |
 | 李翠亭, 李正栓 - 1998 - 264 pages
...yourself at least five reasons that the author gives ? 52* for going to live in the woods Passage 9 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide t that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion... Trust thy self; every heart vibrates... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 pages
...New England; writers began to adopt Emerson's ideas. Let's look at these two works now. Self-Reliance "There is a time in every man's education when he...that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide." —from "Self-Reliance" This essay further elaborates on the familiar Emersonian thesis— Trust thyself... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed... | |
 | Wanda H. Ball, Pam Brewer - 2000 - 182 pages
...effective presentation of your attitudes and aspirations for life. MODEL LESSON 4: "SELF-RELIANCE" There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed... | |
 | Sam McGuire Worley - 2001 - 196 pages
...you discover is yours."35 It is in such a spirit that we should understand Emerson's injunction that [t]here is a time in every man's education when he...better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed... | |
 | Mary E. Schroeder - 2002 - 157 pages
...When people need us to say or do something, if we don't, we can kill by our inaction or our silence." There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed... | |
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