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
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 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,...of the party, the section, to which we belong; and ovr 5950 opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 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. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt,... | |
| Social Circle in Concord - 1903 - 170 pages
...put courage into ten thousand hearts. " Trust thyself ; every heart vibrates to that iron string." " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds." " If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts... | |
| Henry Watterson - 1903 - 510 pages
...convictions of right and duty, as Emerson would have him be. For was it not Emerson who exclaimed: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds"? Taking a hint from the whimsies of my archaic philosopher, Mr.... | |
| George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 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. Then shall man be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for... | |
| Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 478 pages
...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,...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... | |
| Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 468 pages
...opinion predicted 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 hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall no longer be a name for pity, for doubt,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1904 - 592 pages
...to him." Each man must be a unit, — must yield that peculiar fruit which he was created to bear. "We 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... | |
| Le Baron Russell Briggs - 1904 - 264 pages
...put courage into ten thousand hearts. "Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string." " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds." " If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts... | |
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