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" Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these, but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which... "
Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 89
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 315 pages
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Select Essays and Addresses, Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these, but are hindered from action bv the disgust which the principles on which business...himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, 5 the huge world will come round to him. Patience, — patience ; with the shades0 of all the good...
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The Essential American Tradition: An Anthology of Striking and Significant ...

Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 374 pages
...winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these, but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles...of them suicides. What is the remedy? They did not see, and thousands of young men as hopeless now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet...
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The Essential American Tradition: An Anthology of Striking and Significant ...

Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 360 pages
...some of them suicides. What is the remedy? They did not see, and thousands of young men as hopeless now crowding to the barriers for the career do not...instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come around to him. ... Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned...
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American Literature

Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these, but are 5 «ome of them suicides. What is the remedy? fhey did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful...
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A Book of American Literature

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these, but are hindered from action by so the disgust which the principles on which business...instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come 40 round to him. Patience, — patience ; with the shades of all the good and great for company; and...
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Letters from Brook Farm, 1844-1847

Marianne Dwight Orvis - 1928 - 246 pages
...winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these, but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles...drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides." Brook Farm, founded in 1841 on the "asso-1 dative," or cooperative, principle in industry, was intended...
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Emerson: A Study of the Poet as Seer

Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 pages
...winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these, but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is conducted inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides. What is the remedy?...
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Reimagining Thoreau

Robert Milder - 1995 - 266 pages
...overdramatized the case in "The American Scholar" when he described "young men of the fairest promise" who "are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire," and who "turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides" (CIV I, 69). Yet an objective measure...
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After the Reunion: Poems

David Baker - 1994 - 288 pages
...as an important center of what Pound would have called a "vortex." As Emerson said a century before, "If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the great world will come round to him." And come it did, first to the pages of the Fugitive and later...
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My Generation: Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics

John Downton Hazlett - 1998 - 284 pages
...winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these, but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles...and turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides.7 In the Emersonian plot, American youth seeking a meaningful outlet for their creative and...
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