| Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 318 pages
...ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all; it is for you to dare all. Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the...private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this... | |
| 1838 - 536 pages
...astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years. — p. 1. And again, '•' This confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs...prophecy, by all preparation to the American Scholar. — p. 25. And again, "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all. Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the...private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason ; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all. Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the...listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spine of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...ascends ; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all. Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the...private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason ; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all. Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the...private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason ; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all. Mr President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the...private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...ascends ; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all. Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the...private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason ; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all. Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the...suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private a_vajice_ make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...; in yourself slumbers the whole of Keason ; it is for you to- know all, it is for you to dare all. Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the...private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. 'The mind of this... | |
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