| 1887 - 604 pages
...functions, it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself, and to defer never to the popular cry. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun...honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack." If this referred only to his own personal convictions, nothing could be better put, but when a man... | |
| James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 536 pages
...functions, it becomes him to feel all confidenco in himself, and to defer never to the popular cry. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom." The oration, says Dr. Holmes, waH "our Intellectual... | |
| Edward Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 286 pages
...mankind, and cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down. . . . Let him not quit his belief that a pop-gun is a pop-gun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth should affirm it to be the crack of doom." "A scholar defending the cause of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if arl depended on this particular up or down. The odds are...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| 1896 - 374 pages
...some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down....that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down....that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down....that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down....that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
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