 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 564 pages
...decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars...[They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as • - J hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career, do , i not yet see, that, if the single... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1905 - 332 pages
...objects, eats upon itself. Young men of the fairest promise who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in union with these. . . . We will walk on our own feet : we will work with our own hands : we will speak... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...15 and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated 1 by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars...action by the disgust which the principles on which 20 business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides. What is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...30 and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars...in unison with these, but are hindered from action bv the disgust which the principles on which business is mank aged inspire, and turn drudges, or die... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all ao the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison...yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now 25 crowding to the barriers for the career, do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably... | |
 | Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 360 pages
...decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars...of them suicides. What is the remedy? They did not see, and thousands of young men as hopeless now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars...managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, «ome of them suicides. What is the remedy? fhey did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars...unison with these, but are hindered from action by so the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die... | |
 | Marianne Dwight Orvis - 1928 - 232 pages
...eats upon itself. . . . Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars...drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides." Brook Farm, founded in 1841 on the "associative," or cooperative, principle in industry, was intended... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 pages
...work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise . . . inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars...disgust which the principles on which business is conducted inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides. What is the remedy?... | |
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