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" Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. "
The Playhouse and the Play, and Other Addresses Concerning the Theatre and ... - Page 90
by Percy MacKaye - 1909 - 210 pages
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Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 3

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...
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The Boston Quarterly Review, Volume 1

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...
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Essays, orations and lectures

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...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

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...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

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...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

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...
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Orations, Lectures and Essays

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...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

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...
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Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

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...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

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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