 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 264 pages
...scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public...taught to. aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There *» no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin... | |
 | 1838 - 536 pages
...the man is all." " We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public...fat." " The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant." " What is the remedy ? If the single... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spine of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the indolent and complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private a_vajice_ make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the de£orous__a.nd the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores,... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1879 - 494 pages
...Cambridge (Massachusetts), August 31, 1837. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. THE SCHOLAR AND THE WORLD. 205 of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats...There is no work for any but the decorous and the complacent Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1879 - 502 pages
...chapter with his admonition to his young countrymen forty years ago.1 ' Public and private avarice makes the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complacent. See already the tragic consequence. The mind 1 'The American Scholar.' An Oration delivered... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1879 - 512 pages
...chapter with his admonition to his young countrymen forty years ago.1 ' Public and private avarice makes the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complacent. See already the tragic consequence. The mind 1 'The American Scholar.' An Oration delivered... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...Europe. (The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tama Tublie and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat.\ The scholar is decent. iudolentt_c^,niplaiaaiit. See alrejidj tlin trnpn finmrrpirnrr The, mind of this country, taught to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...muses of Europe. The spirit of the Ameriean frceman is already suspeeted to be timid, imitative, tame.J Public and private avarice make the air we breathe...fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. Sce already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objeets, eats upon... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 pages
...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,... | |
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We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant.... 
