 | Johan Huizinga - 1920 - 280 pages
...in de dingen van het leven wonderlijk onzelfstandig. Emerson beklaagde het al in 1837: „the spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame" l). Een zin voor conformiteit, een vrees om van het goede model af te wijken, beheerscht de gedragingen.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 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... | |
 | 1921 - 878 pages
...We," said the stalwart American, "have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame." But in no wise can Emerson be said to be the Jefferson of our intellectual independence. His is but... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1923 - 248 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 timid, imitative, tame: 105 Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent,... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - 1924 - 888 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... | |
 | Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 374 pages
...sovereign state with a sovereign state — tends to true union as well as greatness. . . . The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. . . . There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 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... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 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...The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See al20 ready the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Amos Reno Morris, Melvin Theodor Solve, Carlton Frank Wells - 1928 - 612 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 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. 
