 See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by...  Complete Works - Page 116by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Robert Milder - 1995 - 266 pages
...overdramatized the case in "The American Scholar" when he described "young men of the fairest promise" who "are hindered from action by the disgust which the...principles on which business is managed inspire," and who "turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides" (CIV I, 69). Yet an objective measure... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...calmly, but the words themselves might have been written by some angry prophet who had been "inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God," and then come down from that mountain to condemn the thick and fat world. But there was no possibility... | |
 | Joseph J. Ellis - 2002 - 276 pages
...avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat," he observed. "Young men of the fairest promise ... are hindered from action by the disgust which the...drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides." 20 Emerson's cure for this sickness was perfectly in keeping with the liberal ideals of the revolutionary... | |
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