 It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.  The Monthly magazine - Side 486av Monthly literary register - 1841Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 sider
...meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 10. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1868 - 648 sider
...the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face." It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. || To apply a verse of Keble's, let the world take him as it may, he will not change his road. Or as... | |
 | 1841 - 640 sider
...meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to...solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is be who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. "The... | |
 | 1845 - 488 sider
...appear from 31 Wed. 7 8 4 62 morn. 6 19 meridian to sunset." — Christopher North. The Great Man. " It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — RW Emerson. Have glazed the snow, and clothed the trees with ice, When the slant sun of February... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 sider
...meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to...perfect •sweetness the independence of solitude. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 sider
...meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to...world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 sider
...he is to combat - infidelity - and - vice. And - what avails - a weapon - without skill - to wield it ? It is easy - in the world - to live - after the...perfect sweetness - the independence - of solitude. The material cause, — the trumpet - sounds - because - 'tis made - of metal. The formal cause, — the... | |
 | 860 sider
...the vessel also there — a monument of God's protecting care and man's weakness. TRUE WISDOM. — It is easy in the world to live after the world's...crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character. THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW, says :• — "Chalmers in Scotland, Arnold in England, and... | |
 | 430 sider
...— the greater part of the world might suhscrihe it, without deviating from the strictest veracity. IT is easy in the world to live after the world's...opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; hut the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 sider
...meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty belter than you know it. It is easy in the world to live...perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. THE TRUE POET. — A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says everything,... | |
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