 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1888 - 584 pages
...December 7th. The essayist took as a' text for her much enjoyed production, Emerson's sentence, " A great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Cincinnati, Ohio.- Rev.Geo.A. Thayer is giving a series of eight sermons on "The Truths and Errors... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 pages
...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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude "; "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 pages
...connection is so slight that the colon is placed between the members. The following are examples : "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude"; "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pages
...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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 2230 Emerson : Essays. Self-Beliance. We balance one man with his opposite, and the health of the State... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 514 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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,...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — EMERSON. t " So happily am I situated, that I enjoy all the charms of rural seclusion, yet retain... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.... | |
 | 1908 - 324 pages
...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...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 only sound... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). City Council - 1893 - 76 pages
...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,... | |
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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. 
