 The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that every thing has its price, and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained, and that it is impossible to get anything without its price, is not less sublime in the columns...  Essays, First Series - Page 95by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 348 pages
...compensation of the universe. The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that every thing has its price, — and if that price is not paid, not...else is obtained, and that it is impossible to get any thing without its price, — is not less sublime in the columns of a ledger than in the budgets... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...compensation of the universe. The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that everything has its price — and if that price is not paid, not that...darkness, in all the action and reaction of nature." In attempting to methodise Emerson we are conscious of doing him a certain violence. These marshalled... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...impossible to get any thing without its price, — this doctrine is not less sublime in the columns ofa ledger than in the budgets of states, in the laws...light and darkness, in all the action and reaction of natureA I cannot doubt that the high laws which each man sees ever implicated in those processes with... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 pages
...The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that everything has its price, — and if that is price is not paid, not that thing but something else...cannot doubt that the high laws which each man sees ever implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics which sparkle on his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...compensation of the universe. The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that everything has its price, — and if that price is not paid, not...price, — is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states, in the laws of light and darkness, in all the action and reaction... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...Give and Take, the doctrine that everything has its price ; and if that price is not paid, not'that thing but something else is obtained, and that it is impossible to get anything without its price, — this doctrine is not less sublime in the columns of a ledger than in the budgets of states, in... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 pages
...always this law is sublime. The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that everything has its price, and if that price is not paid, not that...cannot doubt that the high laws which each man sees ever implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics which sparkle on his... | |
 | 1898 - 494 pages
...Incki'st, and that, the one thing best worth having, to gain which the world is well lost. "Everything has its price, and if that price is not paid, not that thing, but something else is obtained." Are we willing to pay the price? ML Lebanon, NT OBEDIENCE is better than many oblations. THE MANIFESTO.... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 428 pages
...always this law is sublime. The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that everything has its price, and if that price is not paid, not that...cannot doubt that the high laws which each man sees ever implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics which sparkle on his... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 432 pages
...always this law is sublime. The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that everything has its price, and if that price is not paid, not that...cannot doubt that the high laws which each man sees ever implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics which sparkle on his... | |
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