 We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman 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, complaisant....  Miscellanies - Page 79by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 321 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 310 pages
...make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught...earth below not in unison with these, — but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 318 pages
...make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught...stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these,—but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 260 pages
...make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught...men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our VoL. II.—T shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 264 pages
...make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught to. aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There *» no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin... | |
 | 1838 - 536 pages
...private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat." " The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant." " What is the remedy ? If the single man will plant himself indomitably upon his instincts, and there... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught...the earth below not in unison with these; but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the indolent and complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught...earth below not in unison with these, — but are hindered from action by the disgust which -the principles on which business is managed inspire, and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught...earth below not in unison with these, — but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and... | |
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