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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...theirs. A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger,...In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power of being greatly useful.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...theirs. A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger,...In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power of being greatly useful.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...theirs. A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger,...the symptoms. A wise and hardy physician will say, Gome out of that, as the first condition of advice. In this our talking America, we are ruined by our... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 380 pages
...theirs.' A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger...advice. In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power of being greatly useful.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 pages
...theirs.' A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger...Charity would be wasted on this poor waiting on the synipm toms. A wise and hardy physician will say, Come out of that, as the first condition of advice.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 pages
...theirs. A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger,...In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power of being greatly useful.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 282 pages
...theirs. A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger...advice. In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power of being greatly useful.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...theirs. A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch ds this evanescent intercourse. I will receive from...them, not what they have, but what they are. They sh mischiets of their vices, but not from their vices. Charity would be wasted on this poor waiting on... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 234 pages
...theirs. A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a.fiuger, they will drown him. They wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1886 - 34 pages
...direct our conduct. " I have learned," he says, " that I cannot dispose of other people's facts. . . . They wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices." 1 Emerson stands oil a high cliff, beneath which a crowd of unfortunates call to him to extricate them... | |
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