 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.  The Monthly magazine - Seite 486von Monthly literary register - 1841Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 Seiten
...meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty your own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | William Harvey Wells - 1880 - 208 Seiten
...7. " No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." — Lady MW Montague. 8. "The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd,...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — Emerson. Point out the nouns in the foregoing sentences. Which are proper ? Which common ? Which... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1881 - 336 Seiten
...used on the positive or absolute member, and the rising, on the negative or relative. Example — " It is easy in the world to live after the world's...great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps the independence of solitude." Emphatic circumflex inflections are also employed in irony, rind in... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 528 Seiten
...select a few characteristic examples. " Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds." " The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." "We grant that human life is mean, but how did we find out that it was mean ?" " What is the universal... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 Seiten
...meanness. It is the 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...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - x The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 Seiten
...meanness. It is the 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...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.... | |
 | Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 Seiten
...be good or bad,honie influences will,as a rule, fan them into activity. Character, independence of. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live alter our own. But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 Seiten
...meanness. It is the 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...of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages thr.t have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 Seiten
...your own mind. *»»»#»»» What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. . . . It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. SYLLABUS. No period was ever marked with such progress as the last fifty years. A nation's literature... | |
 | 1884 - 750 Seiten
...of his own superiority, whether imaginary or real, without interrupting others in the same felicity. 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 sereneness,... | |
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