Perhaps the time is already come when it ouglit 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... Works - Page 83by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1898 - 940 pages
...time has already come," he says, " when the sluggard intellect of this country will look from ander its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of...The millions that around us are rushing into life can not always be fed with the sere remains of foreign harvests." Benjamin Peirce, a graduate of Harvard... | |
| John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 276 pages
...precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard...something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. . . . The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around... | |
| John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 270 pages
...precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard...something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. . . . The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around;... | |
| 1899 - 726 pages
...function of the public school and the college. Pleading- for self-reliance and more originality he said : "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...The millions that around us are rushing into life can not always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events and actions arise that must be... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 284 pages
...sluggard intellect of this continent to look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectations of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill.' The following year he disturbed the ministers as much as he had previously the poets and philosophers.... | |
| 1900 - 600 pages
...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 the postponed...The millions that around us are rushing into life can not always be fed with the sere remains of foreign harvests." Benjamin Peirce, a graduate of Harvard... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 390 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...something better than the exertions of mechanical skill." 2 "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. . . . We will walk on our own feet; we... | |
| 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...something better than the exertions of mechanical , skill."2 "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. . . . We will walk on our own... | |
| 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...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...mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprentice\ ship to the learning of other lands, draws to \ 149 a close. The millions that around us... | |
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