 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
 | Iván Márquez - 2008 - 412 pages
...course. Emerson proclaimed in 1837: "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 own minds."6 Public funds broadened the internal market. The states built roads and railroads, bridges... | |
 | Susan Jacoby - 2008 - 384 pages
...to be a unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that peculiar truit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand . . . Not so, brothers and triends — please God, ours shall not be so." NOTES CHAPTER ONE; THE WAY... | |
 | 1953 - 442 pages
...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...please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. For Emerson each of us is a vital... | |
 | 1926 - 538 pages
...world, not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; not to yield that peculiar fruit which man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, in the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong and our opinion predicted geographically,... | |
 | George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - 1905 - 670 pages
...world not to be a 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 of thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong, and our opinion predicted geographically... | |
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