 Public and 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 country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself.  William Lloyd Garrison - Page 45by John Jay Chapman - 1913 - 278 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 260 pages
...scholar. 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...country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who... | |
 | 1838 - 536 pages
...the man is all." " We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spine of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public...country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the indolent and complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...Scholar. 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...country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...Scholar. 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...country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...Scholar. 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...country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...Scholar. 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...country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...Scholar. 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...taught to aim at low •objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for -any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men. of the fairest promise,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private a_vajice_ make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar...country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the de£orous__a.nd the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...Scholar. 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...taught to . aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who... | |
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