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" 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 43
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pages
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Into the Light of Things: The Art of the Commonplace from Wordsworth to John ...

George J. Leonard - 1995 - 269 pages
...sulking sense of our cultural inferiority sparked his demand for American cultural "self reliance." "Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments," Emerson protested in the 1841 "Self Reliance." "Our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean on and...
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Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology

Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett - 1995 - 356 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 a travelling of the mind ? * This brief passage was dealt with by a number of well-educated people,...
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People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity

Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky, Shelley Fisher Fishkin - 1996 - 524 pages
...kind of traveling more terrible than the transatlantic shuttle: the vagabond intellect, the fact that "our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home." Might not an airplane, then, as easily as a ship or a train (to pick up some of Emerson's images in...
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The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...whereby "the intellect is vagabond." Even 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 ornaments" (81-82). And finally "As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society"...
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Restless Nation: Starting Over in America

James M. Jasper - 2009 - 276 pages
...when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is our 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. . . . Insist on yourself; never imitate." 6 Characteristically,...
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Restless Nation: Starting Over in America

James M. Jasper - 2000 - 330 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 our imitation but the traveling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are...
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Sight & Sound: Naturbilder in der englischen und amerikanischen Romantik

Frank Mehring - 2001 - 194 pages
...Aethenaeum in einem Bericht aus dem Jahre 1829 mit dem Titel „America and American Writers" mit 80 „We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling...mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our tastes, nur whole minds lean, and follow the Fast and the Distant, as the eyes of a maid follow her...
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Essays Series 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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...
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Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673–1968

Harry Francis Mallgrave - 2009 - 584 pages
...idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans."40 He continues, "We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling...with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. . . . And why need we copy the Doric or the Gothic...
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Motivational Classics

Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 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...
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