 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 - Page 486de Monthly literary register - 1841Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1895 - 344 pages
...with others, and yet to follow our own consciences ; to unite social deference and selfdominion. 19. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after one's own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1896 - 604 pages
...this way, it ought not to be discussed at all. He would have us each independent; and yet he says, "The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with ptrfect sweetness the independence of solitude." "Perfect sweetness" never means sourness, bigotry... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 pages
...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. HISTORY CIVIL and natural history, the history of art and of literature, must be explained from individual... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...chosen plain food for health ? " 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." ii. 55. 4. Like George Nidiver, Courage, vii, 261. Head the ballad. 6. " If it were possible to live... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 pages
...Young Friend. " The great end of life is not knowledge, but action." HUXLEY. Technical Education. " The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." EMERSON. Self-Reliancc. " The great mind knows the power of gentleness, Only tries force because persuasion... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 436 pages
...peculiarly my work." From this time on Emerson realized in himself his definition of a great man, " who in the midst of the crowd keeps, with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." Among the clamorous reforms and philanthropies of the day, he was often reproached with indifference... | |
 | Martha B. Mosher - 1898 - 250 pages
...think they know another's duty better than he knows it himself. Our great philosopher has said : " It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." A man's possessions should be rooted in himself to have real value, then no matter how often he is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 pages
...because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. JJt is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitudej 10. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters... | |
 | 1898 - 404 pages
...teachers of the West taught substantially the philosophy that Emerson voices in the following words: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's...solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he that in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." In the transition... | |
 | James N. Patrick - 1898 - 238 pages
...to stand for the real, logical subject which follows the verb ; as, It is a duty to love humanity. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is a pity that he has so much learning, or that he has not a great deal more. 2. It is used as an impersonal... | |
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