 | American essays - 1913 - 916 pages
...from the laboring masses. 'Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property,' said Emerson. 'Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue...themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.' It is difficult for those of us who have been born into the more or less privileged strata of society... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Conduct of life - 1860 - 270 pages
...your sumptuary laws. Give no bounties : make equal laws : secure life and property, aud you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent...justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free aud just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile, to the industrious, brave, and persevering.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 388 pages
...your sumptuary laws. Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent...imbecile, to the industrious, brave, and persevering. legislation punishes itself, by reactions, gluts, and bankruptcies. The sublime laws play indifferently... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - Quakers - 1873 - 860 pages
...your sumptuary laws; give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property and you need give no alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and...persevering. The laws of nature play through trade, as a toy battery exhibits the effects of electricity. The level of the sea is not more surely kept than... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 504 pages
...your sumptuary laws. Give no bounties : make equal laws : secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent...be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, proparty rushes from the idle and imbecile, to the industrious, brave, and persevering. The laws of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 330 pages
...your sumptuary laws. Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent...imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering. The jaws of nature p1"-y through trade, as a toybattery exhibits the effects of electricity. The level... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy, American - 1883 - 558 pages
...sumptuary laws. Give no bounties : make equal laws : secure life and property, and you need not givo alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and...commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile, to tho industrious, brave, and persevering. Tho laws of nature play through trade, as a toybattery exhibits... | |
 | 1889 - 836 pages
...the toiler will take care of his own interests and get his just reward. To quote Mr. Emerson again, " Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue,...imbecile, to the industrious, brave, and persevering." What is there more indefinite than that which we term Government? Like the perception of the Deity,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 458 pages
...your sumptuary laws. Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent...the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.1 The laws of nature play through trade, as a toy-battery exhibits the effects of electricity.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Conduct of life - 1904 - 458 pages
...your sumptuary laws. Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent...imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering. 1 The laws of nature play through trade, as a toy-battery exhibits the effects of electricity. The... | |
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Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property... 
