 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 508 pages
...Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman ia already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public...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... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1905 - 328 pages
...years? . . . We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe. The spirit of the American is suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and...avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. Young men of the fairest promise... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1905 - 332 pages
...suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. Young men of the fairest promise who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, 10 tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breathe...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous 15 and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 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... | |
 | 1909 - 540 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... | |
 | Percy MacKaye - 1909 - 240 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...private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined... | |
 | Benjamin Orange Flower - 1912 - 738 pages
...blushes of shame. Let us now take a few sentences from Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address : 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to 25 be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice...objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any one but the decorous 30 and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon... | |
 | William Morton Payne - 1910 - 470 pages
...Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Politics and private avarice make the air we breathe thick...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. ... Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; not... | |
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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. 
