 | William Morton Payne - 1910 - 512 pages
...marked by these ringing periods: "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of 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 and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...traits is the boy like the ancient Greeks? (Page 41, 1. 12.) 23. Do you know of any instances where "Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat"? (Page*45, 1. 14.) QUESTIONS AND TOPICS ON SELF-RELIANCE. 1. What do you think of Emerson's definition... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - 1913 - 308 pages
...vymild hlis^pr rny 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...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,... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - 1913 - 300 pages
...take a few sentences from Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address: " The spirit of the American freeman is 44 already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public...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,... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman, Louis Ignatius Bredvold, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick - 1915 - 488 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... | |
 | Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 526 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... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 pages
...long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of tbe_Ainerican freeman -is. .alr^ead^ susp_ecied-io be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice...mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, cats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 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... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit d Company decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated... | |
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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. 
