 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
 | Thomas Hebblewhite - 1904 - 902 pages
...pretension." ' ' Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. ' ' ' ' We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. ' ' "But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 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,...will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The stud/ of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt,... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 508 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,...please God ours shall not be so! We will walk on our OAvn feet ; we will work with our own Lands; we will speak our own minds. The studj of letters shall... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1905 - 358 pages
...be a unit, not to be reckoned one character, not to yield that particular 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,... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1905 - 332 pages
...mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in union with these. . . . 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... | |
 | James Huneker - 1905 - 448 pages
...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... | |
 | 1906 - 794 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, our» shall not be so: we will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1906 - 440 pages
...it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or...our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, as the south. . . . We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our... | |
 | Jeremiah Whipple Jenks - 1906 - 308 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,...or the thousand, of the party, the section to which one belongs, and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north or the south ! " I am saying nothing... | |
 | Henry Watterson - 1906 - 536 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.... | |
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