 There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship, each so sovereign that I can detect no superiority in either, no reason why either should be first named. One is truth. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may...  Exercises for Translation Into Latin Prose - Page 53by John Leverett Moore - 1898 - 80 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Montgomery - 1842 - 662 pages
...indissoluble." —Cox't Life of Melancthon, p. 36, 454. Second Edition. " There are two elements which go to the composition of friendship, each so sovereign...reason why either should be first named. One is Truth. The other element of friendship is tenderness. * * * The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...absent, but all the hap in that contest depends on intrinsic nobleness, and the contempt of trifles. There are two elements that go to the composition...so sovereign, that I can detect no superiority in either—no reason why either should be first named. One is Truth. A friend is a person with whom I... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - Cuba - 1854 - 676 pages
...property, arid to suck a short and allconfounding pleasure instead of the pure nectar of God. * * * * ' " A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before...arrived at last in the presence of a man so real, so equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...absent, but all the speed in that contest depends on intrinsic nobleness, and the contempt of trifles. There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship, each so sovereign j that I can detect no superiority in either, no reason | why either should be first named. One_ is... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...absent; but all the hope in that contest depends on intrinsic nobleness, and the contempt of trifles. 2. There are two elements that go to the composition...superiority in either, no reason why either should be named first. One is truth. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - Cuba - 1858 - 702 pages
...suck a short and allconfounding pleasure instead of the pure nectar ef God. * * # * •' •--' ~':" A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before...aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man -M real, so equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second... | |
 | 1867 - 672 pages
...chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can : such a one is a friend. . . . He is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. ... I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. I much prefer... | |
 | 1872 - 320 pages
...and the contempt of trifles. There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship, eaco so sovereign that I can detect no superiority in either, no reason why either should be first named. OIIG is Truth. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...absent, but all the speed in that contost depends on intrinsic nobleness, and the contempt of trifles. There are two elements that go to the composition...Truth. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. liefore him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...absent, but all the speed in that contest depends on intrinsic nobleness and the contempt of trifles. There are two elements that #• go to the composition...with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloudVI am arrived at last in the presence of a man -so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost... | |
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