 But the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these. To him a palace, a statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air, much...  Standard Stenography: Being Taylor's Shorthand - Page 48by Alfred Janes - 1882 - 64 pagesFull view - About this book
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1924 - 460 pages
...a bastard, or an interloper, in the world which exists for him. But the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force...built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these. To him a palace, a statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air,... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1924 - 446 pages
...things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper, in the world which exists for him. But the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble... | |
 | Book collecting - 1924 - 1042 pages
...not what people think." He bids our young rebel not "skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper, in the world which exists for him". It has been a mistake of most of our radical young intellectuals to suppose that what was most required... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1926 - 412 pages
...a bastard, or an interloper, in the world which exists lor him. But the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force...built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these. To him a palace, a statue, or a costly book has an alien and forbidding air,... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, upon the bed. Then rushed upon me a thousand memories finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - Authors, American - 1928 - 276 pages
...things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper in the world which exists for him. . . . Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say, 'I think,' 'I am,' but... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1979 - 434 pages
...things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper, in the world which exists for him. But the man in the street finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy - 1983 - 1196 pages
...things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper, in the world which exists for him. But the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble... | |
 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1988 - 300 pages
...center, but as the servant of a Golem which his hands have built. 10 The man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force...built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor 6 The Complete Worlds of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Centenary Edition), ed. EW Emerson (Boston, 1903-1904),... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - Philosophy - 1994 - 214 pages
...names, in one passage, as peeping or stealing or skulking up and down "with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper in the world which exists for him"; in another, he finds men behaving as if their acts were fines they paid "in expiation of daily non-appearance... | |
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