 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 - 1893 - 126 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... | |
 | 1896 - 234 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...foreign ornaments ; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have... | |
 | 1896 - 374 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... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 pages
...lectual 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 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...ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our whole minds lean, and-follow the Past and the Distant, as the eyes of a maid follow her mistress. (The soul created the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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 - 1901 - 554 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...and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind 1 Our houses are built with foreign taste ; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments ; our... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...intellectual 450 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 455 are garnished with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters- 74 ^ restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitajte; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 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...and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind I Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments; our opinions,... | |
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