 | Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 pàgines
...also, among the cultured and intellectual, he finds indolence, decency, and complacency. "The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. . . . See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats... | |
 | 1907 - 630 pàgines
...things, and compassed about by so great a cloud of witnesses. As Emerson said, in 1837, "the spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame." Yet, even at this, his summons to cultural freedom found no ready response outside New England. Domestic... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1966 - 1002 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 - 1971 - 316 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... | |
 | Alistair Cooke - 1975 - 34 pàgines
...shop, the plough and ledger . . . We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. . .we will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.' Telescoped... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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... | |
 | Paul Goetsch, Gerd Hurm - 1992 - 314 pàgines
...Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. . . . The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. And he had claimed in no uncertain terms: "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning... | |
 | Robert F. Sayre - 1994 - 750 pàgines
...Harvard in 1837, "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe" and lamented that "The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame," he was only saying what scores of American commencement speakers had said before. The United States... | |
 | Paul Seydor - 1999 - 442 pàgines
...same terms, of later artists: "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complacent." Timid, imitative, tame, decent, indolent, complacent. It takes no great powers of divination... | |
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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. 
