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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation, - Page 46
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 132 pages
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Poems and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 pages
...bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong ; and our opinion predicted geographically,...The study of letters shall be no longer a name for for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence...
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Poems and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong ; and our opinion predicted geographically,...with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. The Btudy of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, \ for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread...
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The Reformed Church Review

1912 - 620 pages
...avarice makes the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. . . . " Not so, brothers and friends — please God, ours...letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath...
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Social Ideals in English Letters

Vida Dutton Scudder - 1898 - 346 pages
...bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong ; and our opinion predicted geographically,...with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. ... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine...
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Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History

1898 - 612 pages
...like the book for its purely American independence. Emerson has exclaimed for his countrymen — " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds." And certainly our authoress has proved her emancipation on this point, for we find a perfectly new...
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Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 2

James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1898 - 810 pages
...demanded that the individual man " plant himself indomitably on his instincts and there abide. . . . We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. . . . A nation of freemen will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by...
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Complete Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pages
...bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong ; and our opinion predicted geographically,...letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath...
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Don't-worry Nuggets: Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Robert ...

1899 - 136 pages
...; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason ; it is for you to know all ; it is for you to dare all. We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. FROM "ADDRESS." But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance....
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pages
...bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically,...will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall no longer be a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love...
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Christianity in the Nineteenth Century

George Claude Lorimer - 1900 - 674 pages
...yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross . . . and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north...with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. ... A nation of men will for the first lime exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine...
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