 Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe.  Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 95by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...in tho unsearched might of man belongs, by all moTIvc*^ by all prophecy, by all preparation, to tho American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The •pint of tho American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private... | |
 | 1890 - 870 pages
...independence. The orator did not spare big fellowcountrymen. ' We have listened too much,' he says, ' to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. The scholar is decent, indolent, complacent. ' The young men of promise, he says, are discouraged and... | |
 | Morrison Isaac Swift - 1891 - 142 pages
...making those instincts prevalent, the conversion of the world." * And still after fifty-three years, "public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat; " Still "the scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant." The prophecy of Emerson may be realized now.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be a university of knowledges. . . . We have listened too long to the courtly muses of...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. . . . The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. . . . The mind of this country, taught to aim at... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 574 pages
...contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be a university of knowledges. . . . We have listened too long to the courtly muses of...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. . . . The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. . . . The mind of this country, taught to aim at... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be a university of knowledges. . . . We have listened too long to the courtly muses of...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. . . . The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. . . . The mind of this country, taught to aim at... | |
 | ROBERT CHAMBERS - 1892 - 882 pages
...independence. The orator did not spare his fellowcountrymen. ' We have listened too much,' be says, ' to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected u> be timid, imitative, tame. The scholar ia decent, indolent, complacent.' The young men of promise,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
...contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be a university of knowledges. . . . We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the Amer- , ican freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. . . . The scholar is decent,... | |
 | 1896 - 844 pages
...independence. The orator did not spare his fellowcountrymen. ' We have listened too much,' lie says, ' to the courtly muses of Europe. The .spirit of the...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. The scholar is decent, indolent, complacent.' The young men of promise, he says, are discouraged and... | |
 | 1912 - 620 pages
...know all, it is for you to dare all. Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy,...long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice makes... | |
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