 Water is good to drink, coal to burn, wool to wear ; but wool cannot be drunk, nor water spun, nor coal eaten. The wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in gradation, and his scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature.  Putnam's Monthly - Seite 3061854Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 Seiten
...but sundered and individual. A bell and a plough have each their use, and neither can do the office of the other. Water is good to drink, coal to burn, wool to wear; but wool cannot be .dxunk, nor water spun, nor coal eaten. The wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in gradation,... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1923 - 350 Seiten
...this that made Whitman address the oracle of Concord as his "dear when he writes, in his first book, "The wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in gradation,...of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature." friend and master." For example this passage, in which the metaphor is unfortunate but the meaning... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 Seiten
...constraint, — which all need; and the pulpit will betray it, in a laxer rule of life. — WEALTH 1 he wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in gradation,...scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 Seiten
...but sundered and individual. A bell and a plough have each their use, and neither can do the office of the other. Water is good to drink, coal to burn,...scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 Seiten
...but sundered and individual. A bell and a plough have each their use, and neither can do the office d effect. Governor Thomas was so pleased with the...declined it from a principle which has ever weighed wit The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 Seiten
...but sundered and individual. A bell and a plough have each their use, and , neither can do the office of the other. Water is good to drink, coal to burn,...separation, in gradation, and his scale of creatures and uf- merits is as -wtde'as nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1971 - 316 Seiten
...but sundered and individual. A bell and a plough have each their use, and neither can do the office of the other. Water is good to drink, coal to burn,...of creatures and of merits, is as wide as nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 Seiten
...but sundered and individual. A bell and a plough have each their use, and neither can do the office of the other. Water is good to drink, coal to burn,...scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. What is not... | |
 | Pat Burke Guild, Stephen Garger - 1998 - 201 Seiten
...knowledge. 22 2 Style: One Kind of Difference The wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in graduation, and his scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature. The foolish have no range in their scale, but suppose every man is as every other man. -RALPH WALDO... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 Seiten
...lessons, day by day, whose meaning is unlimited. They educate both the Understanding and the Reason. Water is good to drink, coal to burn, wool to wear;...of creatures and of merits, is as wide as nature. The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter,... | |
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