 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 International Quarterly - Page 267edited by - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 932 pages
...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 unsearched might of man belongs...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,... | |
 | 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
...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 unsearched might of man belongs,...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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 unsearched might of man belongs,...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
...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 unsearched might of man belongs,...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...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 unsearched might of man belongs,...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...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 unsearched might of man belongs,...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...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 unsearched might of man, -belongs,...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...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 unsearched might of man belongs,...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...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 unsearched might of man belongs,...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,... | |
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