 In like manner, the memorable words of history and the proverbs of nations consist usually of a natural fact, selected as a picture or parable of a moral truth. Thus: A rolling stone gathers no moss; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; A cripple...  Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures - Stran 38avtor: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1840 - 516 strani
...you have many advantages, and you may easily go farther and fare worse. Those are true proverbs, " A rolling stone gathers no moss" — " A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." " The dog that grasped at a shadow lost the substance." " I was well, would be better,... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 strani
...difference in weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay while the sun... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 strani
...difference of weight being compensated by time ;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay whilst the sun... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 strani
...difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...selected as a picture, or parable, of a moral truth. Thus—a rolling stone gathers no moss; a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; a cripple, in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 strani
...difference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong ; Make hay while the sun... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 strani
...difference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong ; Make hay while the sun... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 strani
...difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...technical use. '• In like manner, the memorable words of his~ tory, and the proverbs of nations, consist usually of a natural fact, selected as a picture or... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 strani
...difference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay while the sun... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 strani
...difference of weight being compensated by time ;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way will beat a racer in the wrong ; Make hay whilst the sun... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 strani
...difference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...use. In like manner, the memorable words of history, and'the proverbs of nations, consist usually of a natural fact, selected as a picture or parable of... | |
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