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" Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else; 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... "
Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures - Page 76
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 642 pages
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...busy to give to letters any more. As such, it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to...the sluggard intellect of this continent will look ijrom under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than...
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Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...busy to give to letters any more. As such, it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to...dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning if other lands, draws to a close. The millions, »hat around us are rushing into life, cannot always...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...busy to give to letters any more. As such, it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to...close. The millions, that around us are' rushing into ^ife, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of ( foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 336 pages
...busy to give to letters any more.. As such, it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to...dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lauds, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on...
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Nature: Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...busy to give to letters any inore. As such, it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be, and will bo, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids,...
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Education, Volume 45

1925 - 700 pages
...Independence." In this Emerson pleads for an American scholarship. "Perhaps the time will come," says Emerson, "when the sluggard intellect of this continent will...something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign...
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The Memorial History of Boston: Including Suffolk County ..., Volume 3

Justin Winsor - 1882 - 790 pages
...heroic mind." He must study and guide the life of to-day, not overvaluing the methods of the past. " Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. Neither Greece nor Rome, nor the three unities of Aristotle, nor the three kings of Cologne, nor the...
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The Pulpit record and Mutual improvement society, Parliamentary debating ...

1883 - 664 pages
...deperd on the teachings of other lands, but that the sluggard intellect of this continent he. snid, " will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something Letter than mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other...
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Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 pages
...busy to give to letters any more. As such it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; wheijthe sluggard intellect of this continent will look m>m under its iron lids and fill the postponed...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...more. As such it is precious as the sign of an indestruetible instinet. Perhaps the time is alre;idy come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intelleet of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expeetation of...
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