| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 páginas
...contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be a university of knowledges. . . . We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the Amer- , ican freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. . . . The scholar is decent,... | |
| 1896 - 844 páginas
...independence. The orator did not spare his fellowcountrymen. ' We have listened too much,' lie says, ' to the courtly muses of Europe. The .spirit of the...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. The scholar is decent, indolent, complacent.' The young men of promise, he says, are discouraged and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 páginas
...might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of...this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon it self. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise,... | |
| 1912 - 620 páginas
...might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation to the American scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice makes... | |
| Frederick Albert Richardson - 1903 - 460 páginas
...might of man belongs by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame." But henceforth, " please God, we will walk on our feet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 142 páginas
...might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of...objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any one but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our... | |
| Julian Willis Abernethy - 1902 - 520 páginas
...plunging ; also for an independent, self-respecting culture. "We have listened too long," he says, "to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame." It was " our intellectual Declaration of Independence," says Holmes. "Young men went out from it as... | |
| Julian Willis Abernethy - 1902 - 552 páginas
...were plunging; also for an independent, self-respecting culture. "We have listened too long," he says, "to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspetted to be timid, imitative, tame." It was " our intellectual Declaration of Independence," says... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 páginas
...might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of...Public and private avarice make the air we breathe Suck and firt. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1904 - 592 páginas
...contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be a university of knowledges. . . . We have listened too long to the courtly muses of...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. . . . The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. . . . The mind of this country, taught to aim at... | |
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