 | Abby Willis Howes - 1909 - 196 pages
...wake them, and they shall quit the false gods and leap to the true." He sees in the future a time " 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." He has a joy... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1909 - 380 pages
...Declaration of Independence, and in which he expressed the hope that "perhaps the time is already come . . . when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fulfil the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of a mechanical... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy 10 to give to letters any more. As such it is precious...look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation 15 of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 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 such, i{ is precious 33 the sign of. an indestructible instinct. 10 Perhaps the time is already come, wheri... | |
 | Clayton Sedgwick Cooper - 1912 - 228 pages
...necessities for success. Emerson's prophecy may be realized in our day: Perhaps the time has 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 exertion of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence,... | |
 | Delphian Society, Chicago - 1913 - 614 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,... | |
 | Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 524 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,... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 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,... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman, Louis Ignatius Bredvold, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick - 1915 - 518 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,... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 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,... | |
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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... 
