He no longer waits for favoring gales, but by means of steam, he realizes the fable of bolus's bag, and carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat. To diminish friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a coach with a ship-load... The Monthly magazine - Pàgina 336per Monthly literary register - 1839Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Frank Mehring - 2001 - 194 pàgines
...University Press, 1980. Vol. 3. S. 565, 49-52. 438 Vgl. Marx, The Machine in the Garden. S. 230. try, from town to town, like an eagle or a swallow through the air." 439 Emersons Glaube an die mögliche Harmonisierung seines technokratischen Wunschdenkens mit den Kräften... | |
| Stefan Welz - 2003 - 480 pàgines
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| Kris Fresonke - 2003 - 220 pàgines
...realizes the fable of Aeolus'sbag, and carries two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat. . . . The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for him" (CW 1:11-12). While this passage might sound like Jacksonian propaganda (and that is surely intentional),... | |
| Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 284 pàgines
...friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts through the country,...ships, canals, bridges, built for him. He goes to the post-office, and the human race run on his errands; to the book-shop, and the human race read and write... | |
| Erin McKenna, Andrew Light - 2004 - 296 pàgines
...friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts through the country,...changed, from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon! (12-13) As this passage shows, Emerson, like the pragmatists after him, celebrates the unique power... | |
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