 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pages
...Thus far, our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As...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,... | |
 | Frederick Albert Richardson - 1903 - 460 pages
...that our future must have in store. " Perhaps the time is already come," said the young speaker, " when the 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. Our day of dependence,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 394 pages
...things of the higher life, he smote like an angel of light. " Perhaps the time is already come . . . when the 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."2 "We have... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1900 - 458 pages
...partially achieved when Emerson spoke those memorable words:— " Perhaps the time is already come . . . when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fulfill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical... | |
 | 1900 - 600 pages
...science next felt its impulse, and, last of all, literature was born. Emerson hailed it (in 1837) " as the sign of an indestructible instinct." " Perhaps the time is already come," he says, " when the sluggard intellect of this country will look from under its iron lids and fill... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 142 pages
...Thus far, our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...Thus far, our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of lette*6 amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As...precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Pers japs the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 pages
...Thus far our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As...sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time has already come when it ought to be and will be something else; when 'the sluggard intellect of this... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 522 pages
...partially achieved when Emerson spoke those memorable words : — " Perhaps the time is already come . . . when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fulfill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 492 pages
...partially achieved when Emerson spoke those memorable words : — " Perhaps the time is already come . . . when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fulfill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical... | |
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Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the 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... 
