 Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.  Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 108by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 441 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 pages
...nothing. We are to be units, walk on our own feet, think our own thoughts, and speak our own minds." " Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests." "No age should humbly follow the books or intellectual customs of the preceding age ; one's own view... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 pages
...nothing. We are to be units, walk on our own feet, think our own thoughts, and speak our own minds." " Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests." " No age should humbly follow the books or intellectual customs of the preceding age ; one's own view... | |
 | Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger - 1894 - 320 pages
...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...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.' 3 There were four men who at length attracted the attention of Europe to the productions of transatlantic... | |
 | Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger - 1894 - 320 pages
...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 of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence—our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions... | |
 | Edward Singleton Holden, Mrs. Richard F. Bond - 1897 - 338 pages
...sluggard intellect of this country will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions...around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed with the sere remains of foreign harvests." BENJAMIN PEIRCE, a graduate of Harvard in the class of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...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...the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The milVions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1898 - 346 pages
...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...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. ... I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 276 pages
...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 of mechanical skill. . . . The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 264 pages
...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 of mechanical skill. . . . The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around;... | |
 | 1899 - 726 pages
...function of the public school and the college. Pleading- for self-reliance and more originality he said : "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...The millions that around us are rushing into life can not always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events and actions arise that must be... | |
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