Perhaps the time is already 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 expectation of the world with something better than the exertions... Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 71by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this...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 - 1870 - 592 pages
...of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this...close. The millions, that around us are' rushing into ^ife, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of ( foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 336 pages
...of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this...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 - 700 pages
...Independence." In this Emerson pleads for an American scholarship. "Perhaps the time will come," says Emerson, "when the sluggard intellect of this continent will...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... | |
| Justin Winsor - 1882 - 790 pages
...heroic mind." He must study and guide the life of to-day, not overvaluing the methods of the past. " Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. Neither Greece nor Rome, nor the three unities of Aristotle, nor the three kings of Cologne, nor the... | |
| 1883 - 664 pages
...deperd on the teachings of other lands, but that the sluggard intellect of this continent he. snid, " will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something Letter than mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...time is alre;idy come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intelleet of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expeetation of the world with something tatter than the excrtions of mechanieal skill. Our day of dependence,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this...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,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 pages
...sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this...look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectations of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this...look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectations of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of... | |
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