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The American Scholar: An Address - Page 58
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 116 pages
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Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 1

Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 932 pages
...instincts prevalent, the conversion of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be a unit ? — not to be reckoned one character ; —...with our own hands ; we " will speak our own minds." Of the last class of originals, — those who are not only strong to form a purpose in life and fulfil...
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Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 2

Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 264 pages
...be a unit ; not to be reckoned one character ; not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man way created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross,...will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own bands ; we will speak our own minds." Of the last class of originals — those who are not only strong...
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Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 3

Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 318 pages
...opinion predicted geographically, as the North or the South. Not so, brothers and friends,—please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own...with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." ^Of the last class of originals,—those who are not only strong to form a purpose in life and fulfil...
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United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 1

1838 - 540 pages
...office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men, by showing them facts amid appearances. We will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. Then shall man no longer be a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man, and the love...
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The Boston Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1838 - 536 pages
...instincts prevalent, the conversion of the world." " We will walk on our own feet, brothers and friends ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds." Now to our thinking this is high doctrine — timely, and well put. We trust all who have heard or...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends,—please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own...we will work with our own hands; we will speak our minds. Then shall man be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...The mind of this 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...with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Patience,—patience; — with the shades of all the good and great for company...with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...the study and the communication of principles, the making those instincts prevalent, the conversation of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace in the...with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which \ve belong ; and our opinion predicted geographically,...with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The...
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