 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
 | Lyndall Gordon - 2000 - 760 pages
...history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons,' Emerson said. 'The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age.' The gambling and drinking habits of the French Catholics... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...and actions of other "men," which he creates by engendering himself as their historical precedent: 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 pages
...things. Where he is, there is nature. He measures you and all men and all events. Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else, or of some...• 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...you and all men and all events. You ate constrained to accept his standard. 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 all great men are and do. Every true man is a cause, a country,... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 pages
...things. Where he is, there is nature. He measures you and all men and all events. Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else, or of some...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... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...Where he is, there is nature. He measures you, and all men, and all events. Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else, or of some...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... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 430 pages
...Ordinarily, everybody in society reminds us of somewhat else, or of some other person. Character, reafity, reminds you of nothing else; it takes place of the...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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