...marked by these ringing periods: "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. Politics and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent,...

...traits is the boy like the ancient Greeks? (Page 41, 1. 12.) 23. Do you know of any instances where "Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat"? (Page*45, 1. 14.) QUESTIONS AND TOPICS ON SELF-RELIANCE. 1. What do you think of Emerson's definition...

...vymild hlis^pr rny Let us now take a few sentences from Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address : " The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. . . . Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds,...

...take a few sentences from Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address: " The spirit of the American freeman is 44 already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public...country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. . . . Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds,...

...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...

...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...

...long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of tbe_Ainerican freeman -is. .alr^ead^ susp_ecied-io be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice...mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, cats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest...

...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...

...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...

...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit d Company decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated...