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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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Die frühe Postmoderne: Geschichte eines europäisch-amerikanischen ...

Klaus J. Milich - 1998 - 244 pages
...Rückbesinnung auf »Amerika< 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. Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Scholar Immer dann, wenn sich Veränderungen im Kreise der New York...
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Writing and Postcolonialism in the Early Republic

Edward Watts - 1998 - 246 pages
...next stage of decolonization: "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. . . . What is the remedy?" (70-71). Rephrased, once we are no longer colonials, how do we become Americans?...
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The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 4, Nineteenth-Century ...

Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 pages
...independence." But Emerson's Address also contains this estimate of contemporary American society: "Public and private avarice make the air we breathe...country taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." (Contemporary British society was little better, as Americans learned from reading Carlyle.) The young...
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Pietro Belluschi: Modern American Architect

Meredith L. Clausen - 1994 - 508 pages
...ideal. "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe," Emerson had written; "the spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame." Emerson urged the young American "to plant himself indominable on his instincts," and by these alone...
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The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...essay disclosed, that "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe" and thus "The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame" (W 1: 114). But of course and silently, it is the European idolizing of the past and its importation...
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The American Studies Anthology

Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 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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Traversing the Democratic Borders of the Essay

Cristina Kirklighter - 2002 - 176 pages
...given the following passages: We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, and complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country taught to aim at low...
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After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture

Joseph J. Ellis - 2002 - 276 pages
...materialistic values of the marketplace and their corroding effect on prospective poets and writers. "Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat," he observed. "Young men of the fairest promise ... are hindered from action by the disgust which the...
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American Social and Political Thought: A Reader

Andreas Hess - 2003 - 504 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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Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-reliance

Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 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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