The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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... AMERICAN SCHOLAR MR . PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN : THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837.
... AMERICAN SCHOLAR MR . PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN : THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837.
Page 114
... American 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 and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat ...
... American 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 and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat ...
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... American senti- ment . An unlooked - for consequence of the rail- road is the increased acquaintance it has given . the American people with the boundless re- sources of their own soil . If this invention has reduced England to a third ...
... American senti- ment . An unlooked - for consequence of the rail- road is the increased acquaintance it has given . the American people with the boundless re- sources of their own soil . If this invention has reduced England to a third ...
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