 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 304 oldal
...instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well. " A general,1' said Bonaparte, " always has troops enough, if he...certain religious exaltation, who " thought it an honour to wash his own face." He seemed to me more sane than those who hold themselves cheap. Zoologists... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 318 oldal
...refuse the employment which the hour brings you, for one more ambitious. The highest heaven of viso dom is alike near from every point, and thou must find...good which commends to me my country, my climate, iny means and ma» terials, my associates. I knew a man in a certain religious exaltation, who " thought... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 oldal
...used well. "A general," said Bonaparte, ' ' always has troops enough, if he only knows how to^employ those he has, and bivouacs with them. ' ' Do not refuse...certain religious exaltation, who " thought it an honour to wash his own face." He seemed to me more sane than those who hold themselves cheap. Zoologists... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 308 oldal
...have promised to attend the working committee, we look at the distant hills and their seductions I The use of history is to give value to the present...my country, my climate, my means and materials, my asso ciates. I knew a man in a certain religious exaltation, who " thought it an honour to wash his... | |
 | 1885 - 222 oldal
...the present moment ; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied. The use of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty. A third illusion haunts us, that a long duration, as a year, a decade, a century, is valuable. But... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 542 oldal
...common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gipsies and pedlars. In daily life, what distinguishes the master is the...a certain religious exaltation, who "thought it an honour to wash his own face." He seemed to me more sane than those who hold themselves cheap. Zoologists... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1902 - 304 oldal
...AD). MRS. CHARLES : Maid and Cleon (romance of Alexandria, 425 AD). BOOKS RELATING TO MODERN HISTORY THE use of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty. EMERSON CHAPTER VIII BOOKS RELATING TO MODERN HISTORY I. ENGLAND AND CONTINENTAL EUROPE THIS list,... | |
 | 1909 - 280 oldal
...of the subjects treated in this volume of old and new pastimes. BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY, AND GOVERNMENT The use of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty. EMERSON. BOUTET DE MONVEL, LM Joan of Arc. Illustrated by the Author. Century. 3.00 In these truly... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 oldal
...common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gipsies and pedlars. In daily life, what distinguishes the master is the...certain religious exaltation, who ' thought it an honour to wash his own face '. He seemed to me more sane than those who hold themselves cheap. Zoologists... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 498 oldal
...bivouacs with them." Do not refuse the employment which the hour brings you, for one more ambitious.1 The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near from every...climate, my means and materials, my associates. I knewa man in a certain religious exaltation who " thought it an honor to wash his own face." He seemed... | |
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Do not refuse the employment which the hour brings you, for one more ambitious. The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near from every point, and thou must find it, if at all, by methods native to thyself alone. That work is ever the more pleasant to the... 
