 For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked...  The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 264by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Full view - About this book
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes ; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich,...and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep... | |
 | 1896 - 234 pages
...matters not what kind of a watch he has, but rhetorically there is a vast difference. He speaks of " the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American,...watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket." It would have been just as true to the thought to have said the civilized man, but there would have... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 pages
...is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes : it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich,...and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes : it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich,...and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep... | |
 | Brighton and Hove Natural History and Philosophical Society, Brighton - 1898 - 644 pages
...recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes ; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich,...Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. . . . If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad axe, and in a day or two the flesh... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 pages
...is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes : it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich,...^For everything that is given, something is taken, j Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilised, it is christianised, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 pages
...is only apparent, like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich,...and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilised, it is christianised, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is...and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich,...is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For^cverv thing that is given something jg__taJ£pn Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.... | |
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