 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pàgines
...frier tion, 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... | |
 | Engineers Club of Philadelphia - 1900 - 622 pàgines
...abuses, but also in a vast amount of service rendered by the public to the individual. As Ernerson says: "The private poor man hath cities, 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 436 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,...from town to town, like an eagle or a swallow through trie air. By the aggregate of these aids, how is the face of the world changed, from the era of Noah... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 pàgines
...aside ; To him who scorns their charities, Their arms fly open wide. THE WORLD-SOUL * NOVEMBER NINTH The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for him. He goes to the post-office, and the human race run on his errands ; to the bookshop, and the human race read and write... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 464 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,...the era of Noah to that of Napoleon ! The private rjoor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built fpr him. He goes to the post-office, and the human... | |
 | Edwin Holt Hughes - 1909 - 268 pàgines
...chapter on " Commoditj'," in the essay The Lesson on " Nature," Ralph Waldo Emerson writes : of Benefit " The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for him. He goes to the postoffice, and the human race run on his errands; to the bookshop, and the human race read and write... | |
 | Oscar W. Firkins - 1915 - 404 pàgines
...stones, and corn serve him. The field is at once his floor, his work-yard, his garden, and his bed. . . . The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for him. . . . He sets his house upon the road, and the human race go forth every morning, and shovel out the snow, and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 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... | |
 | James Welton - 1924 - 720 pàgines
...economic life of all the others. As Emerson wrote long ago, "The private poor man has cities, shops, canals, bridges, built for him. He goes to the post office and the human race runs on his errands." So, too, the human race in every part of the world feeds him, clothes him, provides... | |
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