 ... 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 614 pages
...Boston. He has not one chance but a hundred chances. Now let a stern preacher arise who shall reveal the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows. . . . A great act of much import to the new philosophical opinions is the garden discovery that a potato,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, 10 is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast...not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man 15 and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1917 - 96 pages
...newspaper, 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 walks abreast of his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...newspaper, 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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 rot leaning willows, but can and... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 pages
...newspaper, 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 walks abreast with bis days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...hidden meanmz lies m our endeavors; chance, but a hundred chances. Let a Our valorg are our £ost gods Stoic open the resources of man and tell men they are not leaning willows, Another sort of false prayers are our but can and must detach themselves ; ю regrets. Discontent is... | |
 | Joseph Franklin Marsh - 1928 - 264 pages
...again from Emerson who has cheered the author in many a struggle : Let a stoic arise who shaH reveal the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning...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... | |
 | 1911 - 706 pages
...faith in the worth of the individual. In " Self-Reliance " he says : Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man and tell men they are not leaning...willows, but can and must detach themselves — that a man is the word made flesh — and that the moment he acts from himself, tossing the laws, the books,... | |
 | 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... | |
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