 ... 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
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1887 - 284 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." That is stirringly said: but, as a matter of fact, most of the Americans whom we recognize as great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 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....not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and... | |
 | 1842 - 420 pages
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 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1891 - 688 pages
...years, and always like a cat falls on his feet." This man, says Emerson further, "walks abreast of his days, and feels no shame in not ' studying a profession...he does not postpone his life, but lives already." Following the advice of Franklin, who was one of Brown's oracles, he married young, as we have seen,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 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 has not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a Stoic2 open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 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....not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and... | |
 | 1896 - 234 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....must detach themselves ; that with the exercise of self -trust, new powers shall appear ; that a man is the word made flesh, born to shed healing to the... | |
 | 1896 - 374 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 has not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a Stoic2 open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach... | |
 | United States. Office of Education, Isaac Edwards Clarke - 1897 - 1208 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." It seems to me that if Emerson could have looked forward at that time and have seen the manual training... | |
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