| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 páginas
...Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk... | |
| Ray Broadus Browne, Marshall William Fishwick - 1983 - 332 páginas
...Leaders of the American West: Who Are Their Heroes? John J. Gardiner & Kathryn E. Jones All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Ralph Waldo Emerson Steadily the frontier of settlement advanced and carried with it individualism,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 páginas
...Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome"; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk... | |
| Ronald Bush - 1991 - 232 páginas
...the Emerson who wrote that "an institution is the lengthened shadow of a man" and that "all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons."38 A few months after Eliot published "Sweeney Erect" he gave a lecture on modern poetry in... | |
| Richard R. O'Keefe - 1995 - 252 páginas
...Central Man: Emerson, Whitman, Wallace Stevens," The Ringers in the Tower, 223-24. 12. "All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons" ("Self-Reliance," Complete Works 2:61). 13. The position 1 take on the "noble doubt" passage in Nature... | |
| Matthew Joseph Bruccoli - 1996 - 276 páginas
...hypertext version of Gatsby. If it is true, as Emerson writes in "Self-Reliance," that "all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons," then we are witnessing the Bruccoli era. Note For a survey of Bruccoli's life and writings, see the... | |
| B. C. Southam - 1996 - 292 páginas
...Emerson's essay 'Self-Reliance': 'an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man' and 'all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons'. //. 33-8: the Emerson echoes continue: the great soul, he writes, must not bother about consistency:... | |
| Lyndall Gordon - 1999 - 760 páginas
...Greenleaf Eliot fulfilled Emerson's ideal of an individual with the power to remake his world. 'All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons,' Emerson said. 'The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true... | |
| Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 páginas
...Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome"; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk... | |
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