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" 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. "
Essays, Lectures and Orations - Page 344
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pages
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The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Ralph Waldo Emerson. John Lothrop Motely

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 pages
...already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. . . . The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. . . . 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." The young men of promise are discouraged and disgusted. "What is the...
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Miscellanies

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 pages
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breatlie thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence....
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Miscellanies

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...tho American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The •pint of tho American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make tho air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already tho tragic...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 pages
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...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...
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...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...
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The Shadow of the Millionaire, Or, The New Ideal: A Novel

P. Gerome - 1890 - 240 pages
...SHADOW OP THE MILLIONAIRE THE SHADOW OF THE MILLIONAIRE OB THE NEW IDEAL A NOVEL BY P. GEROME I t *' The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects,...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated...
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Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 4

1890 - 870 pages
...fellowcountrymen. ' We have listened too much,' he says, ' to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. The scholar is decent, indolent, complacent. ' The young men of promise, he says, are discouraged and...
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Problems of the New Life

Morrison Isaac Swift - 1891 - 142 pages
...making those instincts prevalent, the conversion of the world." * And still after fifty-three years, "public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat; " Still "the scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant." The prophecy of Emerson may be realized now....
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Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures, Volumes 1-2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pages
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...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...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. John Lathrop Motley

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 pages
...already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. . . . The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. . . . 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." The young men of promise are discouraged and disgusted. "What is the...
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