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
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...precious 33 the sign of. an indestructible instinct. 10 Perhaps the time is already come, wheri it, ought to b,e, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard...intellect of this continent will look from under its, iron lids,4 and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of... | |
| 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...expectation of the world with something better than the exertion of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other... | |
| Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 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...mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long 1 An oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837. 70 apprenticeship... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 316 pages
...Harvard. In this, which Holmes calls " our intellectual Declaration of Independence," Emerson says : " Our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close. . . . We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds.... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 680 pages
...Harvard. In this, which Holmes calls " our intellectual Declaration of Independence," Emerson says : " Our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close. . . . We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds.... | |
| Royal Dixon - 1916 - 238 pages
...more than seventy years ago, may be nearing its fulfillment. "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 a mechanical... | |
| Royal Dixon - 1916 - 224 pages
.... . . 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 a mechanical skill." To-day this prophecy is being fulfilled in the new America. Who can fail to notice... | |
| Maurice Garland Fulton - 1918 - 448 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 f ulfil the postponed expectation of the. world with something better than the exertions of a mechanical... | |
| William George Fitz-Gerald - 1918 - 456 pages
...What Emerson called "the sluggard intellect of this continent" is at last astir, and prepares to meet "the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill." It is true that America has perplexity to face when we haul home the guns and open bloodless fire upon... | |
| 1883 - 712 pages
...precious as a sign of an indestrnctible instinct. Perhaps the time has already come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard...the learning of other lands, draws to a close.' The speaker himself laid the foundations of the literature of his country. Emerson's own published writings,... | |
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