 Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. The worst...  The Christian Review - Page 6481861Full view - About this book
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out oil them. The worst of charity is, that the lives you...any mass at all, but honest men only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only, and no shovelhanded, narrow-brained, gin-drinking million stockingers or lazzaroni... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Conduct of life - 1860 - 270 pages
...to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break thein up, and draw individuals out of them. The worst of...any mass at all, but honest men only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only, and no shovel-handed, narrowbrained, gin -drinking million stockingei-s or... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1861 - 538 pages
...striking perhaps, but the first which comes to hand : — " The worst of Charity is that the lives you arc asked to preserve are not worth preserving. Masses...any mass at all but honest men only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only, and no shovel-handed, narrow-brained, gin-drinking milhon-stockingers or lazzaroni... | |
 | John Henry Hopkins - Slavery - 1864 - 396 pages
...flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede any thing to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. The...you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving. Classes I the calamity is the masses. I do not wish any mass at all, hut honest men only ; lovely,... | |
 | John Henry Hopkins - Slavery - 1864 - 394 pages
...influenced by religious truth when we hear him exclaiming : " The masses ! The calamity is the masses. The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked, to preserve are not worths/reserving ;" and then listen to the divine Saviour, saying : " To the poor the Gospel is preached.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...concede anything to them, but to tame, drill divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of then; The worst of charity is, that the lives you are asked...are not worth preserving. Masses ! the calamity is tls masses. I do not wish any mass at all, but honest men onl; lovely, sweet, accomplished women only,... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - Loneliness - 1867 - 420 pages
..."enormous populations, like moving cheese, — - the more, the worse " ; " the guanoraces of mankind " ; " the worst of charity is, that the lives you are asked...masses ! the calamity is the masses ; I do not wish any shovel-handed, narrow-brained, gin-drinking mass at all." The influence of such phrases is unhappy.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...flattered but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. The...any mass at all, but honest men only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only, and no shovel-handed, narrow-brained, gin-drinking million stockingers or... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...flattered but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. The...any mass at all, but honest men only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only, and no shovel-handed, narrow-brained, gin-drinking million stockingers or... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - Apologetics - 1872 - 420 pages
...flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. The...mass at all, but honest men only ; lovely, sweet, accomplished women only ; no shovel-handed, narrow- f£° ™a°sos. brained, gin-drinking, million... | |
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