 | 1862 - 796 pagina’s
...amhition. Wanting this, instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry-party. Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days ; but if, at the end of years, it is still only beans ! But these foibles, real or apparent, were fast vanishing in the incessant... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pagina’s
...signalize his practical ability in this regretful strain : — ' With his energy and practical ability he seemed born for a great enterprise and for command...writer possessed in greater measure. And a sudden humor, like summer lightning, plays over his pages. We could easily fill many pages : let these few... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1881 - 774 pagina’s
...finding new beauties in them almost every day. " Pounding beans," continues Emerson in his quaint way, " is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days ; but if, at the end of years, it is still only beans !" How many, think you, believe in this year of grace, that Thoreau's... | |
 | George Stewart - 1882 - 44 pagina’s
...finding new beauties in them almost every day. " Pounding beans," continues Emerson in his quaint way, " is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days ; but if, at the end of years, it is still only beans !" How many, think you, believe in this year of grace, that Thoreau's... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 434 pagina’s
...ambition. Wanting this, instead of engineering for all America, he was thc captain of a huekleberry-party. Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days ; but if, at the end of years, it is still only beans ! 15ut these foibles, real or apparent, were fast vanishing in the incessant... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 pagina’s
...ambition. Wanting this, instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry-party. Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days ; but if, at the end of years, it is still only beans! But these foibles, real or apparent, were fast vanishing in the incessant... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 472 pagina’s
...ambition. Wanting this, instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry-party. Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days ; but if, at the end of years, it is still only beans ! But these foibles, real or apparent, were fast vanishing in the incessant... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 404 pagina’s
...ambition. Wanting this, instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry-party. Pounding be.ans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days ; but if, at the end of years, it is still only beans ! But these foibles, real or apparent, were fast vanishing in the incessant... | |
 | University of Colorado. Department of Psychology and Education - 1902 - 588 pagina’s
...in themselves, but derive their virtue from being a means to an end. "Pounding beans," says Emerson, "is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days; but If, at the end of years, it is still only beans!" (10) Again, it Is to be said, hardships endured for worthy ends are... | |
 | University of Colorado. Department of Psychology and Education - 1903 - 564 pagina’s
...in themselves, but derive their virtue from being a means to an end. "Pounding beans," says Emerson, "is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days; but if, at the' end of years, It is still only beans!" (10) Again, it is to be said, hardships endured for worthy ends are... | |
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Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days; but if, at the end of years, it is still only beans! 
