We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 43by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and the universal system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay...at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are garnished with foreign... | |
| University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...whole intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay...at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are garnished with foreign... | |
| University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 pages
...travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste;...with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties lean and follow the past and the distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have flourished.... | |
| University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...whole intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay...at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are garnished with foreign... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...intellectual action. 33je^ y intellect^ is vagabond, and our system of education fosters ; restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced / to stay...foreign ornaments ; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. The soul created the arts wherever they hdiTr... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...whole intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay...at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are garnished with foreign... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1162 pages
...intellectual action. The intellect is 45 vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation hut the traveling of the mind? Oui ?o houses are built with foreign taste: our shelves are garnished... | |
| Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1927 - 840 pages
...a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action. . . . We imitate. . . . Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves...with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean on and follow the Past and the Distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...whole intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay...with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...whole intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay...with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have... | |
| |