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
| Frederick Albert Richardson - 1903 - 460 pages
...very essence of this declaration of our intellectual independence. "This confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs by all motives, by all prophecy,...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame." But henceforth, " please God, we will walk on our feet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak... | |
| Julian Willis Abernethy - 1902 - 520 pages
...plunging ; also for an independent, self-respecting culture. "We have listened too long," he says, "to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame." It was " our intellectual Declaration of Independence," says Holmes. "Young men went out from it as... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 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, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We hare listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already... | |
| Julian Willis Abernethy - 1902 - 552 pages
...were plunging; also for an independent, self-respecting culture. "We have listened too long," he says, "to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspetted to be timid, imitative, tame." It was " our intellectual Declaration of Independence," says... | |
| John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1903 - 426 pages
...to this: "This confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecies, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have...listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. ... Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character;... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1904 - 592 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... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 508 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,...muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman ia already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breathe... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1905 - 328 pages
...constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years? . . . We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe. The spirit of the American is suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...know all ; it is for you to dare all. Mr. President and Gentlemen, 5 this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy,...freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, 10 tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent,... | |
| Percy MacKaye - 1909 - 240 pages
...in concluding his address, he said: "Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy,...private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined... | |
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