 An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony ; the Reformation, of Luther ; Quakerism, of Fox ; Methodism, of Wesley ; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called " the height of Rome " ; and all history resolves...  Essays - 第 53 頁Ralph Waldo Emerson 著 - 1850 - 333 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Adam Hochschild - 2006 - 500 頁
...Clarkson." "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, ". . . the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. . . . All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons."... | |
 | Philipp Mehne - 2008 - 234 頁
...have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his virtue, that he confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An Institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; äs Monachism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. (CW 2, 35). Emersons Entwurf von... | |
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