 He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs, the true representative of this continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country, the pulse...  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 1591887Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Hodges Choate - Biography & Autobiography - 1910 - 318 pages
...temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. Only "Washington can compare with him in fortune." Scouted at first as a mystic and a dreamer, Ealph... | |
 | Joseph H. Choate - 1910 - 318 pages
...temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. Only Washington can compare with him in fortune." Scouted at first as a mystic and a dreamer, Ealph... | |
 | William Morton Payne - American essays - 1910 - 512 pages
...quickening his march by theirs, the true representative of this continent; an entirely public man; the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart,...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue." And a few weeks later he spoke briefly but feelingly at the Harvard commemoration. Of Emerson's appearance... | |
 | Charles Morris - Biography - 1911 - 618 pages
...the true history of the American people in his time — the true representative of this continent, father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue." Lincoln, Benjamin, an American general ; born in Massachusetts in 1733; was commissioned a major-general... | |
 | History - 1913 - 292 pages
...temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood, an heroic figure in the centre of an heroic epoch' He is the true history of the American people in his...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. Adam Smith remarks that the axe which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved... | |
 | United States - 1914 - 428 pages
...temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood, an heroic figure in the centre of an heroic epochHe is the true history of the American people in his...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. Adam Smith remarks that the axe which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved... | |
 | American essays - 1915 - 884 pages
...hour of chastisement, of suffering, and of struggle. In the striking epitome of Mr. Emerson, 'He was the true history of the American people in his time....thought of their minds articulated by his tongue.' Mr. Roosevelt is at least different, and the difference marks the contrast between the moral and the... | |
 | William Jewett Tucker - Education, Higher - 1916 - 240 pages
...hour of chastisement, of suffering, and of struggle. In the striking epitome of Mr. Emerson, "He was the true history of the American people in his time....thought of their minds articulated by his tongue." Mr. Roosevelt is at least different, and the difference marks the contrast between the moral and the... | |
 | Denton Jaques Snider - 1921 - 398 pages
...march by theirs, the true representative of this Continent." Verily the Occidental Great Man was he, "the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart,...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue." Thus Emerson sees that Lincoln speaks to the FolkSoul as none other, and voices its unworded aspiration.... | |
 | Charles Reynolds Brown - Biography & Autobiography - 1922 - 88 pages
...quickening his march by theirs, the true representative of this continent, an entirely public man, the father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue." It requires study and reflection to appreciate adequately the true value of that type of leadership.... | |
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