The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design; and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train... The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 55by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...working wherever a man works ; that a true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the centre of things. Where he is, there is nature. He measures...he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to... | |
| James Lindsay - 1912 - 196 pages
...energy. He does not control events : they too much control him. He has not felt, with Emerson, that " the man must be so much, that he must make all circumstances indifferent." Yet it is with his personality, on its subjective side, we are here preeminently concerned, for he... | |
| Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...you and all men and all events. You are constrained to accept his standard. 5 Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else, or of some...much that he must make all circumstances indifferent — put all means into the shade. This 10 all great men are and do. Every true man is a cause, a country,... | |
| Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 pages
...is nature. He measures you and all men and all events. You are constrained to accept his standard. Ordinarily, everybody in society reminds us of somewhat...much that he must make all circumstances indifferent — put all means into the shade. This all great men are and do. Every true man is a cause, a country,... | |
| Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 pages
...ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife. Let us never bow and apologize more. A great man is...he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to... | |
| James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...is nature. He measures you and all men and all events. You are constrained to accept his standard. Ordinarily, everybody in society reminds us of somewhat...much that he must make all circumstances indifferent — put all means into the shade. This all great men are and do. Every true man is a cause, a country,... | |
| Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...somewhat else or of some other person. Character, reality, reminds you of nothing else; it takes the place of the whole creation. The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent — put all means into the shade. This all great -men are and do. <I Every true man is a cause, a country... | |
| Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 pages
...is nature. He measures you and all men and all events. You are constrained to accept his standard. Ordinarily, everybody in society reminds us of somewhat...much that he must make all circumstances indifferent — put all means into the shade. This all great men are and do. Every true man is a cause, a country,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...is nature. He measures you, and all men, and all events. You are constrained to accept his standard. Ordinarily everybody in society reminds us of somewhat...much that he must make all circumstances indifferent, — put all means into the shade. This all great men are and do. / Every true man is a cause, a country,... | |
| University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife. Let us never bow and apologize more. A great man is...he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to... | |
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