| Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 264 pągines
...of man belongs by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe....taught to. aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There *» no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin... | |
| 1838 - 536 pągines
...The world is nothing, the man is all." " We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The American freeman is already suspected to be timid,...fat." " The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant." " What is the remedy ? If the single... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pągines
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spine of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the indolent and complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pągines
...man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe....suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private a_vajice_ make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1879 - 494 pągines
...Cambridge (Massachusetts), August 31, 1837. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. THE SCHOLAR AND THE WORLD. 205 of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats...There is no work for any but the decorous and the complacent Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1879 - 512 pągines
...chapter with his admonition to his young countrymen forty years ago.1 ' Public and private avarice makes the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complacent. See already the tragic consequence. The mind 1 'The American Scholar.' An Oration delivered... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1879 - 502 pągines
...chapter with his admonition to his young countrymen forty years ago.1 ' Public and private avarice makes the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complacent. See already the tragic consequence. The mind 1 'The American Scholar.' An Oration delivered... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pągines
...man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, .to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe....freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tama Tublie and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat.\ The scholar is decent. iudolentt_c^,niplaiaaiit... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pągines
...man belongs, by all motives, by all propheey, by all preparation, to the Ameriean Scholar. AVe have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the Ameriean frceman is already suspeeted to be timid, imitative, tame.J Public and private avarice make... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 pągines
...man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe....imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breatlie thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence.... | |
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