 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 680 pages
...Independence," Emerson says : " Our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close. . . . We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. ... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself to be inspired by... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman, Louis Ignatius Bredvold, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick - 1915 - 488 pages
...geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt and for sensual indulgence. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends, — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The... | |
 | Paula Marantz Cohen - 2001 - 1286 pages
...beginning of "The American Scholar," concluding with a series of calls that echo the Twenty-third Psahn: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. ...... | |
 | Cornel West - 1989 - 292 pages
...geographically, as the North, or the South? Not so, brothers and friends, —please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 1990 - 182 pages
...apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," and in the last paragraph he predicts that "we will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds."21 If "The American Scholar" urges the abandonment of slavish scholarship for the self-reliant... | |
 | Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman - 1991 - 488 pages
...stand on its feet, when, in his essay on the American scholar, delivered at Harvard, 1837, he said, "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. A nation of men can exist only when each man believes himself inspired by the divine soul which also... | |
 | Luther S. Luedtke - 1992 - 588 pages
...of intervening authority. Williams simply echoed the credo of an earlier poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson. "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." Emerson's declaration of cultural independence would work not by fiat but through the conviction of... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 pages
...geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends, — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." The American nation was not a nation of Americans. "A nation of men," predicted Emerson, "will for... | |
 | Sandra Harding - 1993 - 548 pages
...European styles and theories. We have, Emerson wrote, "listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe." "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds" (in Stanton, 1960, p. 84). In the early to mid-nineteenth century, the budding profession of American... | |
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We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. 
