| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 páginas
...might of man belongs, by all moTIvc*^ by all prophecy, by all preparation, to tho American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The •pint of tho American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private... | |
| P. Gerome - 1890 - 240 páginas
...SHADOW OP THE MILLIONAIRE THE SHADOW OF THE MILLIONAIRE OB THE NEW IDEAL A NOVEL BY P. GEROME I t *' The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects,...itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the northern... | |
| 1890 - 870 páginas
...independence. The orator did not spare big fellowcountrymen. ' We have listened too much,' he 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... | |
| Morrison Isaac Swift - 1891 - 142 páginas
...making those instincts prevalent, the conversion of the world." * And still after fifty-three years, "public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat; " Still "the scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant." The prophecy of Emerson may be realized now.... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 páginas
...already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. . . . The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. . . . The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects,...work for any but the decorous and the complaisant." The young men of promise are discouraged and disgusted. "What is the remedy? They did not yet see,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 574 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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 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... | |
| ROBERT CHAMBERS - 1892 - 882 páginas
...independence. The orator did not spare his fellowcountrymen. ' We have listened too much,' be says, ' to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected u> be timid, imitative, tame. The scholar ia decent, indolent, complacent.' The young men of promise,... | |
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