... and run into absurd frolics with the gravity of the Eumenides. They stoutly carry into every nook and corner of the earth their turbulent sense; leaving no lie uncontradicted ; no pretension unexamined. They chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned... English Traits - 75. oldalszerző: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 176 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| 1920 - 450 oldal
...attempted to analyse the contents of the phial believed to contain his^ blood ?] - 25. P. 78, 1. 11. They saw a hole into the head of the " winking Virgin'." to know why she winks. [I should be particularly glad to track down this" winking Virgin " ; she has baffled many a learned... | |
| 1920 - 968 oldal
...ever attempted to analyse the contents of the phial believed to contain his blood ?] 25. P. 78, 1. 11. They saw a hole into the head of the " winking Virgin," to know why she winks. [I should be particularly glad to track down tbjs" winking Virgin " ; she has baffled many a learned... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 oldal
...unexamined. They chew hasheesh ; cut themselves with poisoned creases : swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas ; taste every poison ; buy every secret ; at Naples they put St. Januanus's blood in an alembic ; they saw a hole into the head of the " winking Virgin," to know why... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 oldal
...unexamined. They chew hasheesh ; cut themselves with poisoned creases ; swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas ; taste every poison ; buy every...Virgin," to know why she winks; measure with an English foot-rale every cell of the Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies; translate and send... | |
| 1875 - 852 oldal
...; "they cut themselves with poison - creases ; swing their hammock in the bougha of the bohnn-upat; taste every poison; buy every secret; at Naples they...of the ' winking Virgin,' to know why she winks." Why they do such things — these bold Britona ! — is a question which wakes the special wonder of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 504 oldal
...unexamined. They chew hasheesh ; cut themselves with poisoned creases ; swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas ; taste every poison ; buy every secret ; at Naples, they put St. Januarins's blood in an alembic; they saw a hole into the head of the " winking Virgin," to know why... | |
| William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 oldal
...this day and all days : one of the notablest centres in the Habitation of Men. . Carlyie. They . . measure with an English footrule every cell of the...Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies. ' To the traveller Imbued with a feeling fur the historical and poetical, so Inseparably intertwined... | |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883 - 494 oldal
...unexamined. They chew hasheesh ; cut themselves with poisoned creases ; swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas ; taste every poison ; buy every...the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Brahmins ; and measure their own strength by the terror they cause. These travellers are of every class,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 504 oldal
...unexamined. They chew hasheesh ; cut themselves with poisoned creases ; swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas ; taste every poison ; buy every...the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Brahmins ; and measure their own strength by the terror they cause. These travellers are of every class,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 oldal
...unexamined. They chew hasheesh ; cut themselves with poisoned creases ; swing their hammock in the boughs whatever storms clears again, and serenity is its normal condition. oell of the Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies ; translate and send to Bentley... | |
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