 Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he dies"; and what I heard first I heard last, and the one thing the English value is pluck. The word is not beautiful, but on the quality they signify by it the nation is unanimous.  English Traits - Sivu 58tekijä(t) Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 176 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1856 - 604 sivua
...the reader may derive a good idea of the volume itself. "I find the Englishman," says Mr. Emerson, "to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes....at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, 'Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock, and will fight... | |
 | 1879 - 442 sivua
...tenderhearted. Rome was not. Truth in private life, untruth in public, marks these home-loving men. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. The only thing the English value is pluck. The cabmen have it ; the merchants have it ; the bishops... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1856 - 694 sivua
...have in themselves which they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.' ' On the day of my arrival in Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord-Lieutenant...CLARENDON has pluck like a cock, and will fight till he dies.1 And what I heard first I heard last, and the one thing the English value is pluck. The cab-men... | |
 | 1857 - 588 sivua
...truthfulness of the following passages on Manners ? — " I find the Englishman to be of all men he who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves...what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. . . . "They are positive, methodical, cleanly, and formal, loving routine and conventional ways, loving... | |
 | 1857 - 818 sivua
...and drive in good earnest. Having this strength and courage, they despise cowardice and love pluck. On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, " Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock, and will fight... | |
 | 1857 - 588 sivua
...following passages on Manners 1 — " I find the Englishman to be of all men he who stands firmest in nis shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. . . . "They are positive, methodical, cleanly, and formal, loving routine and conventional ways, loving... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 sivua
...mere comfort and easy healthy relation to people at home. Emtrton. ENGLISHMAN— Vigour of an. I find ness their shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, — mettle and bottom. On the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 sivua
...phalanx, lockstep, foot after foot, file after file of heroes, ten thousand deep. VI.— MANNEES. I FIND the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest...at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, "Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock, and will fight... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 sivua
...lockstep, foot after foot, file after file of heroes, ten thousand deep. CHAPTER VI. MANNERS. I FIND the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest...at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the TLiord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, " Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock, and will fight... | |
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