England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.


English Traits (ed. Boston, Phillips, 1857)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.