We do not yet see that virtue is Height, and that a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not. So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance - Page 24by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 46 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 pages
...me, though he should not raise his finger. Round him I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits. We fancy it rhetoric, when we speak of eminent virtue. We do not yet see that virtue ia Height, and that a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...me, though he should not raise his finger. Round him I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits. We fancy it rhetoric, when we speak of eminent virtue. We do not yet see that virtue ia Height, and that a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...Essays, pp. 90, 95 — 96, 100. By virtue of obedience to this law great men are great, and only so : " We do not yet see that virtue is height, and that...cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not." " A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the centre of things. Where he is, there is... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...Essays, pp. 90, 95—96, 100. By virtue of obedience to this law great men are great, and only so : " We do not yet see that virtue is height, and that...cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not." " A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the centre of things. Where he is, there is... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...me, though he should not raise his finger. Round him I must revolve bv the gravitation of spirits. We fancy it rhetoric, when we speak of eminent virtue....cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not. This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach on this, as on every topic, the resolution of all... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...me, though he should not raise his finger. Bound him I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits. We fancy it rhetoric, when we speak of eminent virtue....cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not. This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach on this, as on every topic, the resolution of all... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...me, though he should not raise his finger. Round him I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits. We fancy it rhetoric, when we speak of eminent virtue....cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not. This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach on this, as on every topic, the resolution of all... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...me, though he should not raise his finger. Round him I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits. We fancy it rhetoric, when we speak of eminent virtue....cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not. This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach on this, as on every topic, the resolution of all... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...me, though he should not raise his finger. Round him I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits. We fancy it rhetoric, when we speak of eminent virtue....cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not. This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach on this, as on every topic, the resolution of all... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...me, though he should not raise his finger. Round him I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits. We fancy it rhetoric when we speak of eminent virtue....cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not. This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach on this, as on every topic, the resolution of all... | |
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