 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.  Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. - Side 45af Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 sider
...it. 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...objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to yon, is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time, and blurs the impression of your character.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 sider
...it. 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...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
...face." 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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 sider
...it. 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...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-Society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like... | |
 | 1845 - 488 sider
..." 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...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 - 354 sider
...it. 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...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 sider
...is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-Society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 sider
...it. 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...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 - 1849 - 270 sider
...it. It is easy in the world tolive 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...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 sider
...- 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...perfect sweetness - the independence - of solitude. The material cause, — the trumpet - sounds - because - 'tis made - of metal. The formal cause, — the... | |
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