 | Education - 1888 - 746 pages
...reluctance towards his most valued and admired companions which kept them ever at a certain distance. " Most of the persons whom I see in my own house, I...exceed the frigidity and labor of my speech with such." (p. 361.) " In his own domestic circle, Emerson was affectionate and unreserved, eren playful ; but... | |
 | Education - 1889 - 686 pages
...reluctance towards his most valued and admired companions which kept them ever at a certain distance. " Most of the persons whom I see in my own house, I...can exceed the frigidity and labor of my speech with such.'1 (p. 361.) " In his own domestic circle, Emerson was affectionate and unreserved, even playful... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - Fiction - 1898 - 270 pages
...touched. Every man is an infinitely repellent orb, and holds his individual being on that condition. . . . Most of the persons whom I see in my own house I see 76 across a gulf; I cannot go to them nor they come to me." This aloofness of Emerson must be remembered... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - Fiction - 1898 - 276 pages
...touched. Every man is an infinitely repellent orb, and holds his individual being on that condition. . . . Most of the persons whom I see in my own house I see 76 across a gulf; I cannot go to them nor they come to me." This aloofness of Emerson must be remembered... | |
 | Mary Fisher - American literature - 1899 - 408 pages
...repeated here, from SS, that I 'always seemed to be on stilts.' It is even so. Most of the persons I see in my own house I see across a gulf. I cannot go to them, nor can they come to me. Nothing can exceed the frigidity and labor of my speech with such. You might turn... | |
 | John Burroughs - Criticism - 1902 - 288 pages
...directions, to balance my manifold imbecilities." He even quotes approvingly the remark of some one that he " always seemed to be on stilts." " It is even so. Most...a gulf. I cannot go to them nor they come to me." He lacked sympathy with men. He cared nothing for persons as such, but only for the genius of humanity... | |
 | John Burroughs - Natural history - 1902 - 290 pages
...directions, to balance my manifold imbecilities." He even quotes approvingly the remark of some one that he " always seemed to be on stilts." " It is even so. Most...a gulf. I cannot go to them nor they come to me." He lacked sympathy with men. He cared nothing for persons as such, but only for the genius of humanity... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 330 pages
...of some one that he "always seemed to be on stilts." "It is even so. Most of the persons whom I sec in my own house I see across a gulf. I cannot go to them nor they come to me." He lacked sympathy with men. He cared nothing for persons as such, but only for the genius of humanity... | |
 | John Burroughs - Natural history - 1904 - 332 pages
...directions, to balance my manifold imbecilities." He even quotes approvingly the remark of some one that he "always seemed to be on stilts." "It is even so. Most...a gulf. I cannot go to them nor they come to me." He lacked sympathy with men. He cared nothing for persons as such, but only for the genius of humanity... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 324 pages
...directions, to balance my manifold imbecilities." He even quotes approvingly the remark of some one that he "always seemed to be on stilts." "It is even so. Most...a gulf. I cannot go to them nor they come to me." He lacked sympathy with men. He cared nothing for persons as such, but only for the genius of humanity... | |
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Most of the persons whom I see in my own house I see across a gulf; I cannot go to them nor they come to me. 
