 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...  Retrospect of Western Travel - Page 210by Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 178 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | John Downton Hazlett - 1998 - 284 pages
...the fairest promise," he declared to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon...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... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...own words calmly, but the words themselves might have been written by some angry prophet who had been "inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God," and then come down from that mountain to condemn the thick and fat world. But there was no possibility... | |
 | Joseph J. Ellis - 2002 - 276 pages
...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...drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides." 20 Emerson's cure for this sickness was perfectly in keeping with the liberal ideals of the revolutionary... | |
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