 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...  Retrospect of Western Travel - Page 210by Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 178 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pages
...one character ; — not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to he reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand,...will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall no longer be a name for pity, for doubt,... | |
 | George Claude Lorimer - 1900 - 674 pages
...yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross . . . and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north...will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. ... A nation of men will for the first lime exist, because each... | |
 | Frederick Albert Richardson - 1903 - 460 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 gross, in the hundred or thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong, and our opinion predicted geographically,... | |
 | 1900 - 496 pages
..." The American Scholar," in which he made a strong plea for the emancipation of American thought. " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds." This striving after originality is characteristic of Emerson.... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 394 pages
...exertions of mechanical , skill."2 "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." ' But other and more personal qualities appear in Emerson's pages,... | |
 | 1900 - 514 pages
..." The American Scholar," in which he made a strong plea for the emancipation of American thought. " We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." This striving after originality is characteristic of Emerson.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 142 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 gross,...will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. Then shall man be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...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,...be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work \vith our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for... | |
 | Helena Born - 1902 - 134 pages
...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,...will walk on our own feet, we will work with our own hands, we will speak our own minds. . . . A nation of men will for the first time exist because each... | |
 | Helena Born - 1902 - 136 pages
...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,...South ? Not so, brothers and friends — please God, // UQt I ours shall not be so. We wjll walk on our own feet, we will work with our own hands, we will... | |
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