 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing...  Everybody's Writing-desk Book - Page 115by Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ronald Bush - 1991 - 232 pages
.... . . [Tjhough the wide universe is full of good, no kernal of nourishing corn can come to [a man] but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.26 Lest I be misunderstood, I need add that even in the essays Eliot wrote before The... | |
 | 1906 - 510 pages
...suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is... | |
 | Craig Hickman, Craig Bott, Marlon Berrett, Brad Angus - 1996 - 240 pages
...must take himself [herself] for better, for worse, as his [her] portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him [her] but through his [her] toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him [her] to till.... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...ignorance: that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion: that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...on that plot of ground which is given him to till" (Essays, 259). The model of self-possessed individuality that results from Emerson's description of... | |
 | Richard G. Geldard - 1999 - 200 pages
...suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 pages
...impact what he lacked in bulk. for better or for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is... | |
 | Wanda H. Ball, Pam Brewer - 2000 - 182 pages
...suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is... | |
 | William James - 2000 - 404 pages
...when he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; and know that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can...through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which it was given him to till."11 The matchless eloquence with which Emerson proclaimed the sovereignty... | |
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