 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 490 pages
...adding the last touch of grace to Grecian art in the Parthenon when the glory of Athens departed. Eome fell when art was in its golden age, while Mars, Bacchus,...passion for wealth often stifles every noble aspiration. Kothschild was called " one of the most devout worshipers that ever laid a withered soul upon the altar... | |
 | 1897 - 586 pages
...The real subject of progress is man himself. Emerson has well put it: "The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops ; no, but the kind of men the country turns out. " If there is any lesson writ large upon the page of history, it is this... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 582 pages
...overtops all titles." The truest test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, n0i the crops; no, but the kind of man the country turns out. — EVERSON. Hew the block off, and get out the man. — POPE. Eternity alone will reveal to the human... | |
 | Colorado Bar Association - 1901 - 730 pages
...characters of great men are the dowry of a nation. Emerson has said that "the truest test of civilization" is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of men the country turns out. And another writer, in defining character, says "There is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 294 pages
...: they make the earth wholesome. Uses of Great Men January lil'lmi '"THE true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...— no, but the kind of man the country turns out. January surtmt HPALENT alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; Goethe January... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 542 pages
...such harm as they do. These are traits, and measures, and modes; and the true test of civilisation is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...— no, but the kind of man the country turns out. I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone. I see the immense... | |
 | Joseph Alfred Conwell - 1903 - 332 pages
...in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Confucius. The truest test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...crops ; no, but the kind of man the country turns out. — Emerson. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 466 pages
...and such harm as they do. These are traits and measures and modes ; and the true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...crops, — no, but the kind of man the country turns out.1 I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone. I see... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 498 pages
...and such harm as they do. These are traits and measures and modes ; and the true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the...crops, — no, but the kind of man the country turns out.1 I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone. I see... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1904 - 312 pages
...of fate : you will wonder at your own improvement." — Richter. " The truest test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops ; but the kind of men the country turns out." — Emerson. 76 a la carte' mar'ma lade ta'ble d'hote... | |
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These are traits, and measures, and modes ; and the true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, — no, but the kind of man the country turns out. 
