...conservative commonwealth, the spearhead of the aggressively reactionary Federalist party. " From 1790 to 1820, there was not a book, a speech, a conversation, or a thought in the State," wrote Emerson. Speaking relatively and broadly, he was right. The Yankee mind, engrossed in the struggle...

...history of Massachusetts, I confess, is not inviting to an expansive thinker. . . . Since, from 1790 to 1820, there was not a book, a speech, a conversation,...cogitative since. Edwards on the Will was printed in 1754. October, -undated I saw in the cars a broad-featured, unctuous man, fat and plenteous as some successful...

...a history of Massachusetts, I confess, is not inviting to an expansive thinker. . . . From 1790 to 1820 there was not a book, a speech, a conversation,...have been bookish and poetical and cogitative since. (Emerson, Journals, Vol. VIII, p. 339.) IN such summary fashion in the year 1852, Emerson recorded...

...history of Massachusetts during the period that lay between 1790 and 1820, felt moved to exclaim that "there was not a book, a speech, a conversation, or a thought in the state." Nevertheless it could be said that those rough sea captains who preferred viewing a ship's manifest...

...could only be attacked by traitors to the country. "From 1790 to 1820," Emerson wrote in his Journal, "there was not a book, a speech, a conversation, or a thought in the state." The great lie of our own age, the lie that also paralyzes and withers, the He from which all other...

...could only be attacked by traitors to the country. "From 1790 to 1820," Emerson wrote in his journal, "there was not a book, a speech, a conversation, or a thought in the state." The great lie of our own age, the He that also paralyzes and withers, the lie from which all other...

...crafted responses in early national writings were soon mistaken for mindless chauvinisms. "From 1790 to 1820 there was not a book, a speech, a conversation, or a thought in the state," Ralph Waldo Emerson believed just thirty years after the fact. 1 " The opinion, shared by most modern...

...REVOLUTIONARY AND EARLY NATIONAL PERIODS Michael T. Gilmore LETTERS OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC FROM 1790 TO 1820, there was not a book, a speech, a conversation, or a thought in the state." So wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1852, glancing back from the heyday of Romanticism to what he considered...

...tankards into ice-water pitchers. Although Emerson has pathetically pointed out that 'from 1780 to 1 820 there was not a book, a speech, a conversation, or a thought in the state,'42 there were such ships and such sailors as even Boston had never seen before. For the ingenuity...

...wilderness.' 8 "Individual opportunity" to all too many simply meant making money. Emerson opined that "there was not a book, a speech, a conversation or a thought" in the country between 1790 and 1820." Many intellectually aware Americans did not limit their reading to...