To diminish friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, • and merchandise behind him, he darts through the country, from town to town, like an eagle or a swallow through the air. By the aggregate... Complete Works - Seite 21von Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 Seiten
...and carries the two-and-thirty winds in tbe boiler of bis boat. To diminish friction, he paves tlie road with iron bars, and, mounting a coach with a...is the face of the world changed, from the era of Xoah to that of Napoleon ! The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for him.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 Seiten
...JEolus's bag, and carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat. To diminish friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a...changed, from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon 1 The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for him. He goes to the post-office,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 436 Seiten
...^Eolus's bag, and carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat, To diminish friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a...from town to town, like an eagle or a swallow through trie air. By the aggregate of these aids, how is the face of the world changed, from the era of Noah... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 464 Seiten
...bolus's bag, and carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat. To diminish friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a...the era of Noah to that of Napoleon ! The private rjoor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built fpr him. He goes to the post-office, and the human... | |
| Max Carl Otto - 1926 - 116 Seiten
...bolus's bag, and carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat. To diminish friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a...the world changed from the era of Noah to that of Naploeon!" What would he say could he witness "the aggregate of these aids" increased to their present... | |
| Max Carl Otto - 1926 - 118 Seiten
...bolus's bag, and carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat. To diminish friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a...the world changed from the era of Noah to that of Naploeon!" What would he say could he witness "the aggregate of these aids" increased to their present... | |
| Michael T. Gilmore - 2010 - 192 Seiten
...Aeolus's bag, and carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat. To diminish friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a...that of Napoleon! The private poor man hath cities, shops, canals, bridges, built for him. He goes to the post-office, and the human race run on his errands;... | |
| Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 Seiten
...AEolus's bag, and carries to two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat. To diminish friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a...through the country, from town to town, like an eagle or swallow through the air.102 In der Vorlesung "The Young American" - gehalten am 7. Februar 1844 vor... | |
| Max Oelschlaeger - 1991 - 506 Seiten
...arts are reproductions or new combinations by the wit of man, of the same natural benefactors. ... By the aggregate of these aids, how is the face of...changed, from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon!" (Emerson, Selected Writings, 191). Muir's outlook is quite different. 35. For a clear and concise discussion... | |
| Hephzibah Roskelly, Kate Ronald - 1998 - 212 Seiten
...itself in Nature, his metaphor specifically links the natural and the technical: "To diminish friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a...town, like an eagle or a swallow through the air" (6-7). The train loses its association with the mundane and becomes airborne, allowing the passenger... | |
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