 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 páginas
...courtly muses of Europe," but " plant himself on his own instincts," and be himself, not a copy. " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds." THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR AN ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, AT CAMBRIDGE, AUGUST 31, 1837... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - 1907 - 282 páginas
...seriously 1837. and with dignity that they must no longer listen to " the courtly muses of Europe." "We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds," said Emerson. These last words were the keynote of his message to the world. Whoever listens may hear... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1908 - 1002 páginas
...matters certainly, we do well to follow Emerson, who, when addressing his fellow citizens, declared : ' We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands, and we will speak our own minds.' Still, the example of Germany and the detailed information which... | |
 | Percy MacKaye - 1909 - 236 páginas
...on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Brothers and friends — we will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." It is now seventy years since those words were first spoken. They were revolutionary for all time,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 páginas
...to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends,—please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own... | |
 | James Huneker - 1909 - 404 páginas
...to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred of thousands, of the party, of the section to which we belong, and our opinion predicted geographically as the North or the South?" Herbert Spencer did not write these words, nor Max Stirner. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote them. AUG *n... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 páginas
...hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong ; and our opinion pre- 15 dieted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so,...work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. Then shall man be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indul- 20 gence. The dread... | |
 | Montrose Jonas Moses - 1910 - 570 páginas
...institution. In New England, during August, 1837, Emerson, speaking on " The American Scholar," was saying : " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." But in none of these respects was the South accomplishing much; its every energy was spent in holding... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1910 - 304 páginas
...America, and it is this spirit that preserves the republic. Emerson has expressed it in a sentence: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." It is undoubtedly true that the largest influence in the development of this spirit came from the Puritans... | |
 | William Morton Payne - 1910 - 512 páginas
...to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brother and friends, please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with... | |
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Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or... 
