... when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning... Nature ; Addresses and Lectures - Page 80by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 461 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1838 - 536 pages
...last eighteen hundred years it has been in religion. We echo with joy the language of the orator. " Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in...constellation Harp which now flames in our zenith, as astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years. — p. 1. And again,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life,...harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that T will sing themselves. Who can doubt, tnat poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are' rushing into ^ife, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of ( foreign...lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation j Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a... | |
| 1925 - 700 pages
...the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. The millions that around us are rushing into life...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. "The scholar," says Emerson, "is in the right state Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, he tends... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 394 pages
...skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around us are rushing into life,...star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in out zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years ? In this hope... | |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883 - 428 pages
...skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around us are rushing into life,...star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in oui zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years ? In this hope... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 392 pages
...skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around us are rushing into life,...star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in out zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years ? In this hope... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 pages
...skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around us are rushing into life,...star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in oui zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years ? Q_ In this... | |
| 1883 - 664 pages
...dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close ; millions around us wlio are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the...arise that must be sung, that will sing themselves " Snch in his hope and confidence, and in my opinion he bus done much to realize it himself. Man, he... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 pages
...skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lauds, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life,...lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Hai'p, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand... | |
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