 ... or land ; and if I have so much more, every other must have so much less. I seem to have no good without breach of good manners. Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the...  Emerson's Complete Works: Representative men - Page 27by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | 1880 - 506 pages
...are guilty of a great wrong if they do not accomplish it. MRS. HW BBBCHKE. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system;...the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors. — Emerson. I. OCB MAGAZINE. — At one of oar Northern churches a paper was recently read on " Our... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Bio-bibliography - 1850 - 270 pages
...gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system...man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets and envies and hatreds of his competitors. But in these new fields, there is room ; here are no self-esteems,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 1850 - 204 pages
...gladness of another, :iml our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system: and a man comes to measure Ids greatness by the regrets and envies and hatreds of his competitors. But in these new fields, there... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 336 pages
...superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system ; ana a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets,...is room : here are no self-esteems, no exclusions. f I admire great men of all classes, those who stand for facts, and for thoughts ; I like rough and... | |
 | Richard Vickerman Taylor - 1865 - 552 pages
...and table they lord it o'er us, With looks of beauty, and words of good.' Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system...competitors. But in these new fields there is room ; here are DO self-esteems, no exclusions, v " We admire great men of all classes, those who stand for facts and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system...facts, and for thoughts ; I like rough and smooth, " Scourgers of God," and "Darlings of the human race." I like the first Caesar ; and Charles V., of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system;...facts, and for thoughts; I like rough and smooth, " Scourgers of God," and "Darlings of the human race." I like the first Ceesar; and Charles V., of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 1875 - 500 pages
...gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system ; and a man comes to measure liis greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors. But in these new fields there... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 512 pages
...gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system...facts, and for thoughts; I like rough and smooth, " Scourgers of God," and " Darlings of the.human race." I like the first Caesar ; and Charles V., of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 290 pages
...gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system...smooth, " Scourges of God," and " Darlings of the human race..^_ I like the first Czesar ; and Charles V., of Spain: and Charles XII., of Sweden; Richard Plantagenet... | |
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