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" An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as Monachism, of the Hermit Antony ; the Reformation, of Luther ; Quakerism, of Fox ; Methodism, of Wesley ; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio^ Milton called " the height of Rome " ; and all history resolves... "
Standard Stenography: Being Taylor's Shorthand - Page 48
by Alfred Janes - 1882 - 64 pages
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The Essay on Self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-confidence - 1905 - 70 pages
...minds so grow and cleave to his genius, that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man...itself very easily into the biography of a few stout & earnest persons. Q Let a man then know his worth, and keep 19 things under his feet. Let him not...
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Unity, Volume 37

1912 - 572 pages
...also says, "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man [or, as we would say, the radiation] ; as, the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox;...the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." All that these men were or did is for you. Let us decide to have great ideas and ideals; that our happiness...
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Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 2

Hugo Münsterberg, Herbert Sidney Langfeld - Psychology - 1906 - 978 pages
...with its duties, and puts the accent of the world's history on the individual, on the personality: "All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons," and "An institution is the lengthened shadow of a man." Nature speaks to us, Freedom speaks in us,...
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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...as, Monachism,2 of the Hermit Antony ; the Reformation, of Luther ; Quakerism, of Fox ; Methodism, 5 of Wesley ; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton...Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under 10 his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard,...
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The Secret of the Stream

John Brown Maclean - Christian life - 1907 - 196 pages
...SWINBURNE. " An Institution is the lengthened Shadow of one man ; as Monachism of the Hermit Anthony ; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism,...the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." EMERSON. " Thus, have we found a new Astrology ; Thus, have we found a new and noble sense In which...
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Proceedings of the National Conference for Good City Government and Annual ...

National Municipal League - 1907 - 446 pages
...parties ; for, to quote from the wise Emerson : "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." The Republican party did not produce Lincoln ; he was here with his principles and his patriotism before...
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Proceedings of The... National Conference for Good City Government, and of ...

National Municipal League - Municipal government - 1907 - 436 pages
...parties; for, to quote from the wise Emerson: "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." The Republican party did not produce Lincoln ; he was here with his principles and his patriotism before...
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Proceedings of the conference for good city government and the annual ...

1907 - 436 pages
...parties; for, to quote from the wise Emerson: ''An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." The Republican party did not produce Lincoln; he was here with his principles and his patriotism before...
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The Teaching of Jesus in Parables

George Henry Hubbard - 1907 - 444 pages
...steps as a train of clients. A man, Caesar, is born, and for ages after we have a Roman empire. . . . And all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." The history of all human progress is but the history of the working and influence of character in the...
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Proceedings of the ... Conference for Good City Government and the ...

National Municipal League - Municipal government - 1907 - 438 pages
...parties; for, to quote from the wise Emerson: "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." The Republican party did not produce Lincoln ; he was here with his principles and his patriotism before...
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