Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit ; — not to be reckoned one character ; — not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred^, or the thousand, of the party,... Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 96by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1924 - 688 pages
...nationalism is stirring. They, 180 THE MISSIONARY FROM THE USA 181 too, are echoing the words of Emerson: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak with our own minds." The Protestant churches in Mexico are beginning to dream of a national unity;... | |
| United States. Office of Education - 1966 - 1002 pages
...to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the...geographically, as the north, or the south. Not so, brothers jand friends, — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with... | |
| 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... | |
| Audrey T. Rodgers - 1993 - 252 pages
...in one respect, is an account of one poet's attempt to follow Emerson's declaration of independence: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds."2 History tells us that art need never justify itself. It will endure on its own merits or will... | |
| Wilfred M. McClay - 1994 - 386 pages
...to be an unit — not to be reckoned one character — not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the...thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong. . . . Not so, brothers and friends — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet;... | |
| Judith L. Raiskin - 1996 - 354 pages
...other lands, draws to a close. . . . We have 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 minds.29 At the time that Schreiner's essay "South Africa" appeared in the Fortnightly Review, British... | |
| Joan W. Goodwin - 1998 - 436 pages
...men in libraries when they wrote these books." Coming out of the libraries, Emerson's new scholars "will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands, we will speak our own minds."54 More unwarranted arrogance, Norton and Bowen would say, while "the likeminded," Emerson's... | |
| Jay Grossman - 2003 - 292 pages
...not to be an unit;—not to be reckoned one character;—not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the...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... | |
| Wolf Lepenies - 2009 - 273 pages
...day of dependence, 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."36 He was thinking of the need to reduce the European influence in America and of the necessity... | |
| Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...not to be an unit; - not to be reckoned one character; - not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the...the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we 26 belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and... | |
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