 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 270 páginas
...like a grain of dust. But learn to swim, trim your bark, and the wave which drowned it will be eloven by it, and carry it, like its own foam, a plume and...motion. The cold will brace your limbs and brain to genins, and make you foremost men of time. Cold and sea will train an imperial Saxon race, which nature... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 504 páginas
...power. The cold is inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, freezes a man like a dewdrop. But learu to skate, and the ice will give you a graceful, sweet,...motion. The cold will brace your limbs and brain to genins, and make you foremost men of time. Cold and sea will train an imperial Saxon race, which nature... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 páginas
...exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit. . . . Fate is unpenetrated causes. The water drowns ship and sailor, like a grain...which nature cannot bear to lose, and after cooping it for a thousand years in yonder England, gives a hundred Englands, a hundred Mexicos. . . . The annual... | |
 | Swimming - 1882 - 104 páginas
...writer has said, "Skates, which are wings on the ice, are fetters on the ground." He has also said, " Learn to skate, and the ice will give you a graceful, sweet, and poetic motion." "Graceful, sweet, and poetic" — that is just what skating is to all who learn to do anything beyond... | |
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Fate is unpenetrated causes. The water drowns ship and sailor, like a grain of dust. But learn to swim, trim your bark, and the wave which drowned it will be cloven by it, and carry it, like its own foam, a plume and a power. The cold is inconsiderate... 