 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1841 - 408 pages
...victories; which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch said. When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must thank...his grunting resistance to all his native devils." Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in all practical life. There is less... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1845 - 584 pages
...characters in proportion as they are impulsive and spontaneous. .... When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must thank...the angel, and say, ' Crump is a better man with his resistance to all his native devils.'" — Essays, p. 109. This is conclusive. Now, since the Transcendentalists... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...victories ; which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch said. When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank...his grunting resistance to all his native devils.' Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in all practical life. There is less... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch ii 2 said. When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank...his grunting resistance to all his native devils." Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in all practical life. There is less... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...victories; which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch said. When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must thank...and say, " Crump is a better man with his grunting assistance to all his native devils." Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...victories; which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch said. When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must thank...his grunting resistance to all his native devils." Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in all practical life. There is less... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...victories ; which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch said. When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank...his grunting resistance to all his native devils.' Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in all practical life. There is less... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...victories ; which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch said. When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank...his grunting resistance to all his native devils.' Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in all practical life. There is less... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...victories; which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch said. When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank...his grunting resistance to all his native devils." My will never gave the images in my mind the rank they now take. The regular course of studies, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...victories; which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch said. When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank...his grunting resistance to all his native devils." Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in all practical life. There is less... | |
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whose acts are regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are, and not turn sourly on the angel and say : Crump is a better man, with his grunting resistance to all his native devils. 
