Water is good to drink, coal to burn, wool to wear ; but wool cannot be drunk, nor water spun, nor coal eaten. The wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in gradation, and his scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature. Putnam's Monthly - Seite 3061854Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 Seiten
...but sundered and individual. A bell and a plough have each their use, and neither can do the office of the other. Water is good to drink, coal to burn,...scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 Seiten
...but sundered and individual. A bell and a plough have each their use, and neither can do the office of the other. Water is good to drink, coal to burn,...scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as Nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 Seiten
...but sundered and individual. A bell and a plough have each their use, and neither can do the office of the other. Water is good to drink, coal to burn,...of creatures and of merits, is as wide as nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 Seiten
...but sundered and individual. A bell and a plough have each their use, and neither can do the office of the other. Water is good to drink, coal to burn,...scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 Seiten
...but sundered and individual. A bell and a plough have each their use, and neither can do the office of the other. Water is good to drink, coal to burn,...scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not... | |
| 1854 - 792 Seiten
...but sundered and individual. A bell and a plough have each their use, and neither can do the office of the other. Water is good to drink, coal to burn,...the affirmation of Nature, concerning the sphere of actipn, suited to the male portion of the human race 1 The answer to this question will be found by... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 Seiten
...comparatively free from this error, and thereby proved its discernment ; for, as a living author says, " The wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in gradation ; and his scale of characters and of merits is as, wide as nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 Seiten
...but sundered and individual. A bell and a plough have each their use, and neither can do the office of the other. Water is good to drink, coal to burn,...scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature. The foolish have no range in then- scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 Seiten
...but sundered and individual. A bell and a plough have each their use, and neither can do the office of the other. Water is good to drink, coal to burn,...of creatures and of merits, is as wide as Nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 Seiten
...but sundered and individual. A bell and a plough have each their use, and neither can do the office of the other. Water is good to drink, coal to burn,...scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not... | |
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