 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 pàgines
...already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. . . . The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. . . . The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects,...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant." The young men of promise are discouraged and disgusted. "What is the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 pàgines
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...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.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pàgines
...tho American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The •pint of tho American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make tho air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already tho tragic... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 pàgines
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pàgines
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated... | |
 | P. Gerome - 1890 - 240 pàgines
...SHADOW OP THE MILLIONAIRE THE SHADOW OF THE MILLIONAIRE OB THE NEW IDEAL A NOVEL BY P. GEROME I t *' The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects,...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated... | |
 | 1890 - 870 pàgines
...fellowcountrymen. ' We have listened too much,' he says, ' to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. The scholar is decent, indolent, complacent. ' The young men of promise, he says, are discouraged and... | |
 | Morrison Isaac Swift - 1891 - 142 pàgines
...making those instincts prevalent, the conversion of the world." * And still after fifty-three years, "public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat; " Still "the scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant." The prophecy of Emerson may be realized now.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pàgines
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 pàgines
...already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. . . . The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. . . . The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects,...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant." The young men of promise are discouraged and disgusted. "What is the... | |
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The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. 
