 I must remember that she has respectable remains of astronomic science, and historic records of forgotten time, that have supplied important gaps in the ancient history of the western nations. Then she has philosophers who cannot be spared. • Confucius...  Documents of the City of Boston - Pàgina 55per Boston (Mass.). City Council - 1869Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1900 - 474 pàgines
...of silks ; and its tea, the cordial of nations. But I must remember that she had re2—3 spectable remains of astronomic science, and historic records...insight, putting always the blame of our misfortunes on our selves ; as when to the governor who complained of thieves he said: "If you, sir, were not covetous,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 676 pàgines
...stereotype, and lithography, and gunpowder, and vaccination, and canals ; had anticipated Linnasus's nomenclature of plants ; had codes, journals, clubs,...His morals, though addressed to a state of society unlike ours, we read with profit to-day. His rare perception appears in his GOLDEN MEAN, his doctrine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 676 pàgines
...stereotype, and lithography, and gunpowder, and vaccination, and canals ; had anticipated Linnseus's nomenclature of plants ; had codes, journals, clubs,...His morals, though addressed to a state of society unlike ours, we read with profit to-day. His rare perception appears in his GOLDEN MEAN, his doctrine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 672 pàgines
...' of comity and reconciliation. I need not mention its useful arts, — its pottery indispensable i to the world, the luxury of silks, and its tea, the...His morals, though addressed to a state of society unlike ours, we read with profit to-day. His rare perception appears in his GOLDEN MEAN, his doctrine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 674 pàgines
...fame. When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it mu«t mean that other men held that they were wise, but...His morals, though addressed to a state of society unlike ours, we read with profit to-day. His rare perception appears in his GOLDEN MEAN, his doctrine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 726 pàgines
...youth. As we know, China had the magnet centuries before Europe ; and block-printing or stereotype, and lithography, and gunpowder, and vaccination, and...His morals, though addressed to a state of society unlike ours, we read with profit to-day. His rare perception appears in his GOLDEN MEAN, his doctrine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 672 pàgines
...youth. As we know, China had the magnet centuries before Europe ; and block-printing or stereotype, and lithography, and gunpowder, and vaccination, and...His morals, though addressed to a state of society unlike ours, we read with profit to-day. His rare perception appears in his GOLDEN MEAN, his doctrine... | |
 | Arthur Versluis - 1993 - 364 pàgines
...the moral imperative and Confucius, Emerson pointed out in an address to the Chinese embassy in 1868: What we call the GOLDEN RULE of Jesus, Confucius had...His morals, though addressed to a state of society unlike ours, we read with profit today. His rare perception appears in his GOLDEN MEAN, his doctrine... | |
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