 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 252 pages
...be no such God's word in the man, — • what care we how adroit, how fluent, how brilliant he is ? It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence, whether there be a man behind it, or no. In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Conduct of life - 1893 - 464 pages
...than is possible for us, is the author to read. If he is original, so much the better. Emerson says, " It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence, whether there be a man behind it or no." But " mind makes the man," so that we may well change the sentence... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Readers - 1893 - 446 pages
...than is possible for us, is the author to read. If he is original, so much the better. Emerson says, " It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence, whether there be a man behind it or no." But " mind makes the man," so that we may well change the sentence... | |
 | William Malone Baskervill, James Witt Sewell - English language - 1895 - 358 pages
...general party, — nothing could exceed the amiable, kind, and unassuming deportment of Mrs. Siddons. 28. It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it or no. (£) Find sentences with five verbs in the indicative mood, five in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 286 pages
...there be no such God's word in the man, — what care we how adroit, how fluent, how brilliant he is ? It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it or no. In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1903 - 392 pages
...there be no such God's word in the man, — what care we how adroit, how fluent, how brilliant he is ? It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it or no. In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1903 - 396 pages
...there be no such God's word in the man, — what care we how adroit, how fluent, how brilliant he is ? It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it or no. In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no... | |
 | William Mathews - Success - 1903 - 442 pages
...dashes are all alive, so that the writing is athletic and nimble, and can go far and live long. ... It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it or no." Why is it that certain bold, bad men so often hold sway over their... | |
 | C. E. Heisch - Authorship - 1905 - 148 pages
...passion, concentration—Carlyle, C. Bronte, Mr. R. Kipling—Control—Example of powerful writing. "It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence, whether there be a man behind it, or no."—EMERSON. " It need not be long, but it will take you a long time... | |
 | Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1913 - 400 pages
...Easy writing makes hard reading." Then, too, a writer must make his phrases take hold. Emerson said : "It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it or no. In the learned journal, in <he influential newspaper, I discern no... | |
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It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it or no. In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some moneyed corporation, or some dangler... 
