...in de dingen van het leven wonderlijk onzelfstandig. Emerson beklaagde het al in 1837: „the spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame" l). Een zin voor conformiteit, een vrees om van het goede model af te wijken, beheerscht de gedragingen....

...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...

...We," said the stalwart American, "have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame." But in no wise can Emerson be said to be the Jefferson of our intellectual independence. His is but...

...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 timid, imitative, tame: 105 Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent,...

...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...

...sovereign state with a sovereign state — tends to true union as well as greatness. . . . The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. . . . There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise,...

...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 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...The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See al20 ready the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon...

...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...