| Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...sumptuary laws. Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and...persevering. The laws of nature play through trade, as a toy-battery exhibits the effects of electricity. The level of the sea is not more surely kept, than... | |
| American essays - 1913 - 916 pages
...from the laboring masses. 'Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property,' said Emerson. 'Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue...themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.' It is difficult for those of us who have been born into the more or less privileged strata of society... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1860 - 120 pages
...sumptuary laws. Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and...persevering. The laws of nature play through trade, as a toy-battery exhibits the effects of electricity. The level of the sea is not more surely kept, than... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Conduct of life - 1860 - 270 pages
...sumptuary laws. Give no bounties : make equal laws : secure life and property, aud you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and...justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free aud just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile, to the industrious, brave, and persevering.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...sumptuary laws. Give no bounties : make equal laws : secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and...persevering. The laws of nature play through trade, as a toy-battery exhibits the effects of electricity. The level of the sea is not more surely kept, than... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...sumptuary laws. Give no bounties : make equal laws : secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and...persevering. The laws of nature play through trade, as a toy-battery exhibits the effects of electricity. The level of the sea is not more surely kept, than... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...sumptuary laws. Give no bounties : make equal laws : secure life and property, and you need riot give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and...persevering. The laws of nature play through trade, as a toy-battery exhibits the effects of electricity. The level of the sea is not more surely kept, than... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1870 - 332 pages
...sumptuary laws. Give no bounties : make equal laws : secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and...persevering. The laws of nature play through trade, as a toy-battery exhibits the effects of electricity. The level of the sea is not more surely kept, than... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 388 pages
...sumptuary laws. Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and...imbecile, to the industrious, brave, and persevering. legislation punishes itself, by reactions, gluts, and bankruptcies. The sublime laws play indifferently... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 504 pages
...sumptuary laws. Give no bounties : make equal laws : secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and...be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, proparty rushes from the idle and imbecile, to the industrious, brave, and persevering. The laws of... | |
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