| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed...dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning if other lands, draws to a close. The millions, »hat around us are rushing into life, cannot always... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 336 pages
...come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed...dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lauds, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on... | |
| 1925 - 702 pages
...scholarship. "Perhaps the time will come," says Emerson, "when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed...something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed...Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to tho learning of other lands, draws to a close. Tho millions, that around us are rushing into life,... | |
| Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger - 1894 - 320 pages
...speech observes : 4 Perhaps the time is already come . . . when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed...than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence—our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions... | |
| John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 276 pages
...come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed...something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. . . . The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around... | |
| John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 264 pages
...come when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed...something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. . . . The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around;... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 284 pages
...sluggard intellect of this continent to look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectations of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill.' The following year he disturbed the ministers as much as he had previously the poets and philosophers.... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 390 pages
...angel of light. "Perhaps the time is already come . . . when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed...something better than the exertions of mechanical skill." 2 "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. . . . We will walk on our own feet; we... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 394 pages
...angel of light. " Perhaps the time is already come . . . when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed...something better than the exertions of mechanical , skill."2 "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. . . . We will walk on our own... | |
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