| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely, when he compared a monarchy and a republic, saying, " that a monarchy is a merchantman, which...would- never sink, but then your feet are always in water." No forms can have any dangerous importance, whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely, when he compared a monarchy and a republic, saying, " that a monarchy is a merchantman, which...would never sink, but then your feet are always in water." No forms can have any dangerous importance, whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely, when he compared a monarchy and a republic, saying, " that a monarchy is a merchantman, which...would never sink, but then your feet are always in water." No forms can have any dangerous importance, whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.... | |
| 1867 - 672 pages
...is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom ; while a republic is a raft which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water.' He believes in collective wisdom as the limit to collective folly; and while maintaining that... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely, when he compared a monarchy and a republic, saying, " that a monarchy is a merchantman, which...would never sink, but then your feet are always in water." No forms can have any dangerous importance, whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.... | |
| Antonio Bergnes de las Casas - 1872 - 242 pages
...ser al parecer ; y con propiedad sublime se describe á Dios con estas palabras : YO SOY. RW EHERSON. A monarchy is a merchantman , which sails well, but...whilst a republic is a raft , which would never sink, butthen your feet are ahvays in water. FISHER AJIES. Una monarquía es un bajel mercante que navega... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely, when he compared a monarchy and a republic, saying, " that a monarchy is a merchantman, which...would never sink, but then your feet are always in water." No forms can have any dangerous importance, whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 380 pages
...Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely, when he compared a monarchy and a republic, saying that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails...would never sink, but then your feet are always in water. No forms can have any dangerous importance whilst we are befriended by the laws of things. It... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely, when he compared a monarchy and a republic, saying, " that a monarchy is a merchantman, which...would never sink, but then your feet are always in water." No forms can have any dangerous importance, whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 pages
...Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely, when he compared a monarchy and a republic, saying that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails...would never sink, but then your feet are always in water. No forms can have any dangerous importance whilst we are befriended by the laws of things. It... | |
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