 Ames expressed the popular security more wisely, when he compared a monarchy and a republic, saying, " that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom ; whilst a republic is a raft, which would...  Crown of wild olives, Munera pulveris, Pre-Raphaelitism, Aratra Pentelici - Page 195by John Ruskin - 1894Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...saying, " that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom ; whilst a republic is a raft, which...would never sink, but then your feet are always in water." No forms can have any dangerous importance, whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...saying, " that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom ; whilst a republic is a raft, which...would- never sink, but then your feet are always in water." No forms can have any dangerous importance, whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...saying, " that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom ; whilst a republic is a raft, which...would never sink, but then your feet are always in water." No forms can have any dangerous importance, whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.... | |
 | 1867 - 672 pages
...is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom ; while a republic is a raft which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water.' He believes in collective wisdom as the limit to collective folly; and while maintaining that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...saying, " that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom ; whilst a republic is a raft, which...would never sink, but then your feet are always in water." No forms can have any dangerous importance, whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 232 pages
...labour and effort, quite other than that of the stump-orator and the revival preacher, one day." 125.* Understand, then, once for all, that no form of government,...condemned or praised, or contested for in anywise, but by fools. But all forms of government are good just so far as they attain this one vital necessity... | |
 | Antonio Bergnes de las Casas - 1872 - 242 pages
...RW EHERSON. A monarchy is a merchantman , which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft , which would never sink, butthen your feet are ahvays in water. FISHER AJIES. Una monarquía es un bajel mercante que navega... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...saying, " that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom ; whilst a republic is a raft, which...would never sink, but then your feet are always in water." No forms can have any dangerous importance, whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 380 pages
...saying that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom ; whilst a republic is a raft, which...would never sink, but then your feet are always in water. No forms can have any dangerous importance whilst we are befriended by the laws of things. It... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...saying, " that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom ; whilst a republic is a raft, which....would never sink, but then your feet are always in water." No forms can have any dangerous importance, whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.... | |
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