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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation, - Page 46
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 132 pages
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A Short History of America's Literature: With Selections from Colonial and ...

Eva March Tappan - 1907 - 282 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...
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ..., Volume 77

British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1908 - 1002 pages
...matters certainly, we do well to follow Emerson, who, when addressing his fellow citizens, declared : ' We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands, and we will speak our own minds.' Still, the example of Germany and the detailed information which...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 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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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 636 pages
...reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we bekmg; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north,...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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The Playhouse and the Play, and Other Addresses Concerning the Theatre and ...

Percy MacKaye - 1909 - 236 pages
...on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Brothers and friends — we will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." It is now seventy years since those words were first spoken. They were revolutionary for all time,...
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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 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...
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Egoists, a Book of Supermen: Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole France ...

James Huneker - 1909 - 404 pages
...bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred of thousands, of the party, of the section to which we belong, and our opinion predicted geographically as the North or the South?" Herbert Spencer did not write these words, nor Max Stirner. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote them. AUG *n...
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Egoists, a Book of Supermen: Stendahl, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole France ...

James Huneker - 1921 - 428 pages
...bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred of thousands, of the party, of the section to which we belong, and our opinion predicted geographically as the North or the South?" Herbert Spencer did not write these words, nor Max Stirner. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote them. What some...
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Leading American Essayists

William Morton Payne - 1910 - 512 pages
...which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brother and friends, please God, ours shall not be so. We...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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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong ; and our opinion pre- 15 dieted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so,...work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. Then shall man be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indul- 20 gence. The dread...
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