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" It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. "
The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register - Page 488
1841
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect...objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to yon, is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time, and blurs the impression of your character....
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 10. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force....
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 64

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1868 - 648 pages
...after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. || To apply a verse of Keble's, let the world take him as it may, he will not change his road. Or as...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-Society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like...
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The Unitarian Annual Register, for the Year ...

Unitarian churches - 1845 - 488 pages
...after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — RW Emerson. Have glazed the snow, and clothed the trees with ice, When the slant sun of February...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-Society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect •sweetness the independence of solitude. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...tolive after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like...
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A New Elucidation of the Principles of Speech and Elocution: A Full ...

Alexander Melville Bell - Elocution - 1849 - 356 pages
...world's opinion ; - it is easy - in solitude - to live - after our own ; - but - the great man - is he - who, - in the midst - of the crowd, - keeps -with...perfect sweetness - the independence - of solitude. The material cause, — the trumpet - sounds - because - 'tis made - of metal. The formal cause, — the...
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