 ... complaining the rest of his life. A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in...  Essays, First Series - Page 66by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Herbert Henck - 1980 - 188 pages
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 | Richard Whelan - 1991 - 212 pages
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 | John Updike - 1991 - 956 pages
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 | Donald Capps - 1993 - 198 pages
...goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls....already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances (SR, 43). As a boy, Emerson was himself deprived of love and affection by Calvinistic parents whose... | |
 | Jopi Nyman - 1997 - 396 pages
...goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls....he does not postpone his life, but lives already." Neither is Emerson the only representative of gendered individualism within the Western or American... | |
 | Alfred Kazin - 1997 - 296 pages
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 | Alfred Kazin - 1997 - 296 pages
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