 The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the...  The Courage of the Coward: And Other Sermons - Side 40av Charles Frederic Aked - 1907 - 251 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 sider
...greatness ? Must a boy pay for manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before...thought is great and overlooks thousands, has the responsibility of overlooking. With every influx of light, comes new danger. Has he light ? he must... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 sider
...peace and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before...thought is great, and overlooks thousands, has the responsibility of overlooking. With every influx of light, comes new danger. Has he light ? he must... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 sider
...peace and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before...thought is great, and overlooks thousands, has the responsibility of overlooking. With every influx of light, comes new danger. Has he light ? He must... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 sider
...attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is conent to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect...thought is great, and overlooks thousands, has the responsibility of overlooking. With every influx of light, comes new danger. Has he light ?—he must... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 sider
...peace and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before...thought is great, and overlooks thousands, has the responsibility of overlooking. With every influx of light, comes new danger. Has he light ? he must... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 sider
...peace and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before...thought is great, and overlooks thousands, has the responsibility of overlooking. With every influx of light, comes new danger. Has he light ? he must... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 sider
...peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind tne throne. Or, do men desire the more substantial and permanent grandeur of genius ? Neither has this... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 sider
...peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind tne throne. Or, do men desire the more substantial and permanent grandeur of genius ? Neither has this... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 sider
...peace and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before...and permanent grandeur of genius ? Neither has this au immunity. He who by force of will or of thought is great, and overlooks thousands, has the charges... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 sider
...peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind tne throne. Or, do men desire the more substantial and permanent grandeur of genius ? Neither has this... | |
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