 | Johan Huizinga - 1920 - 280 páginas
...instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. We will walk on our own f eet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds" 2) — „Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the uni verse ? Why should not wehaveapoetry... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1921 - 500 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 may be true that the largest influence in the development of this spirit came from the Puritans... | |
 | James Huneker - 1921 - 296 páginas
...to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundreds of thousands, of the party, of the section to which we belong, and our opinion predicted geographically as the North or the South?" These words were not uttered by a Socialist; they emanated from the crystal-clear intellect of our... | |
 | Ida Prentice Whitcomb - 1922 - 486 páginas
...England to individualism, self-reliance, sincerity, and courage, and above all to cultivate soul freedom: "We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds." Daring words these I and an eager crowd listened breathlessly to this new voice. Holmes styled the... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1923 - 570 páginas
...Scholar, a college address, in which he announced the intellectual independence of his country : " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. ... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine... | |
 | Eleanore (Sister Mary) - 1923 - 284 páginas
...word that was not entirely his own. This resolution of the writer was also the resolution of the man. "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. ... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - 1923 - 552 páginas
...culture. "We have listened too Henry long/' he said, "to the courtly muse of Wadsworth Europe .... we will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak out our own minds." But another poet saw the changeless beauty inherent, for the minds that could receive... | |
 | Alistair Cooke - 1975 - 34 páginas
...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 this way, I must say it sounds a little too quixotic and hairy-chested, a little too like... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 1990 - 182 páginas
...apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," and in the last paragraph he predicts that "we will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds."21 If "The American Scholar" urges the abandonment of slavish scholarship for the self-reliant... | |
 | Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman - 1991 - 488 páginas
...stand on its feet, when, in his essay on the American scholar, delivered at Harvard, 1837, he said, "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. A nation of men can exist only when each man believes himself inspired by the divine soul which also... | |
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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... 
