| Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 halaman
...connection is so slight tltat the colon is placed between the members. The following are examples: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude "; "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 halaman
...than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. 222!) Emerson : Miscellanies. Literary Ethics. The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 2230 Emerson : Essays. Self-Beliance. We balance one man with his opposite, and the health... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 514 halaman
...on their thrones ; they alone with him alone. " The great man," he elsewhere says, " is 1 Epictetus. he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." We may all, if we will, secure peace of mind for ourselves. " Men seek retreats,"... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 228 halaman
...on their thrones ; they alone with him alone. " The great man," he elsewhere says, " is 1 Epictetus. he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." We may all, if we will, secure peace of mind for ourselves. " Men seek retreats,"... | |
| John Rogers Rees - 1892 - 192 halaman
...thoughts that, hy looking into them, he is immediately in perfect tranquility." — MARCUS AURELIUS. "The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — EMERSON. t " So happily am I situated, that I enjoy all the charms of rural seclusion,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 halaman
...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 live after the world's...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your... | |
| 1908 - 324 halaman
...common determination to go down to darkness and death ?" " It is easy in the world," says Emerson, " to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in...crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." " No man," says Shelley, " has a right to do an evil thing that good may come Politics are... | |
| Boston (Mass.). City Council - 1893 - 76 halaman
...definition already given, while quite apposite to the individuality we are attempting to describe, — "the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." That he of whom we are now speaking should have kept the serenity of solitude,... | |
| Mary Jane Chisholm Foster - 1894 - 252 halaman
...older this may illustrate the idea of Mr. Emerson in his essay on " Self Reliance," where he says, " It is easy in the world to live after the world's...crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." The Bible narrative of Sunday was Matt, ii, 1-12. Monday we talked of the star — explained... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 halaman
...whatever she makes us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. — POJK. It 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 the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
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