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The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Ralph Waldo Emerson. John Lothrop Motely - Page 84
by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884
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Christianity in the Nineteenth Century

George Claude Lorimer - 1900 - 674 pages
...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 minds. ... A nation of men will for the first lime exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men....
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 594 pages
...indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all. A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." In the following year, his address before the Divinity School at Cambridge carried his gospel of individualism...
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Essays of American Essayists: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches ...

1900 - 496 pages
..." The American Scholar," in which he made a strong plea for the emancipation of American thought. " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds." This striving after originality is characteristic of Emerson. " Think for yourself," he says again...
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pages
...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 hands ; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall no longer be a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The...
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A Short History of American Literature: Designed Primarily for Use in ...

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 394 pages
...exertions of mechanical , skill."2 "We have listened too long 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." ' But other and more personal qualities appear in Emerson's pages, and win him readers even among those...
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Essays of American Essayists: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches ...

1900 - 514 pages
..." The American Scholar," in which he made a strong plea for the emancipation of American thought. " We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." This striving after originality is characteristic of Emerson. " Think for yourself," he says again...
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pages
...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 hands ; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall no longer be a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The...
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A Short History of American Literature

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 392 pages
...mechanical skill." 2 "We have listened too long 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." * But other and more personal qualities appear in Emerson's pages, and win him readers even among those...
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A Short History of American Literature: Designed Primarily for Use in ...

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 400 pages
...Lecture on the Times ; and Nnu England Reformers, in Essays, Second Series. 2 The American Scholar. we will work with our own, hands; we will speak our own minds."1 But other and more personal qualities appear in Emerson's pages, and win him readers even...
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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all. A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men. 180 THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DATE DUE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 3 9015 00334 8086 00 NOT REMOVE ...
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