 ... 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
 | 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... | |
 | Terry Roberts - 1998 - 147 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....already. He has not one chance but a hundred chances. (1979, p. 75) We might add to our profile of the successful 21st century individual that he or she... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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... | |
 | Micki McGee - 2005 - 304 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. 28 Pursuit of self and the pursuit of a specific occupation are not equivalent. Emerson's endorsement... | |
 | 1908 - 530 pages
...to -Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls en his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls....he does not postpone his life, but lives already." Never was there a broader or livelier spirit of enterprise, and I am proud to be the husband of one... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 430 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....profession," for he does not postpone his life, but fives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic open the resources of man... | |
 | 1900 - 700 pages
...hear God Himself unless He speak the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul." "He feels no shame in not studying a profession for he does not postpone his life, but lives already." " Discontent is the want of self-reliance." Quote at random, you cannot fail to alight upon a significant... | |
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