 Had his genius been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life, but with his energy and practical ability he seemed born for great enterprise and for command; and I so much regret the loss of his rare powers of action, that I cannot help counting...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 2481862Full view - About this book
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life, but with his energy and practical ability he seemed born for great enterprise and for command;...cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition. Wanting this, instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1865 - 476 pages
...inimitable biographical sketch, introductory to the volume of " Excursions : " the writer there says, " I so much regret the loss of his rare powers of action,...cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition. Wanting this, instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1865 - 456 pages
...inimitable biographical sketch, introductory to the volume of " Excursions : " the writer there says, " I so much regret the loss of his rare powers of action,...cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition. Wanting this, instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry... | |
 | Henry Allon - English periodicals - 1874 - 764 pages
...ability in this regretful strain : — ' With >is energy and practical ability ho seemed born for a great enterprise and for command ; and I so much regret...cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition. Wanting this, instead of engineering for all •America, he was the captain of a huckleberry... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...ability in this regretful strain : — ' With his energy and practical ability he seemed born for a great enterprise and for command ; and I so much regret...cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition. Wanting this, instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1883 - 484 pages
...been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life, but w,ith his energy and practical ability he seemed born for great enterprise and for command...cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition. Wanting this, instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry-party.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 434 pages
...been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life, but with his energy and practical ability he seemed born for great enterprise and for command...cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition. Wanting this, instead of engineering for all America, he was thc captain of a huekleberry-party.... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - American literature - 1883 - 336 pages
...been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life, but with his energy and practical ability he seemed born for great enterprise and for command;...cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition. Wanting this, instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 400 pages
...been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life, but with his energy and practical ability he seemed born for great enterprise and for command...cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition. Wanting this, instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry-party.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 pages
...been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life, but with his energy and practical ability he seemed born for great enterprise and for command...that I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he hai no ambition. Wanting this, instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry-party.... | |
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