 | Le Baron Russell Briggs - 1904 - 264 pages
...put courage into ten thousand hearts. "Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string." " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds." " If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts and there abide, the huge world will... | |
 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 468 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, as the north or the south ? Not so, brothers and friends,—please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 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 stud/ of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1905 - 376 pages
...bear ; but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or 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. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 13. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 508 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,...please God ours shall not be so! We will walk on our OAvn feet ; we will work with our own Lands; we will speak our own minds. The studj of letters shall... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1905 - 332 pages
...mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in union with these. . . . We will walk on our own feet : we will work with our...will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall no longer be a name for pity, for doubt and for sensual indulgence. A nation of men will, for the first... | |
 | 1906 - 794 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,...south ? Not so, brothers and friends, — please God, our» shall not be so: we will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak... | |
 | Henry Watterson - 1906 - 536 pages
...convictions of right and duty, as Emerson would have him be. For was it not Emerson who exclaimed: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds"? Taking a hint from the whimsies of my archaic philosopher, Mr. Chairman, I shall begin by a repudiation... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - 1906 - 462 pages
...seriously 1837. and with dignity that they must no longer listen to "the courtly muses of Europe." "We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds," said Emerson. These last words were the keynote of his message to the world. Whoever listens may hear... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...courtly muses of Europe," but " plant himself on his own instincts," and be himself, not a copy. " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds." THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR AN ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, AT CAMBRIDGE, AUGUST 31, 1837... | |
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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. 
