...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,...geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brother and friends, please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with...

...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,...the section, to which we belong ; and our opinion pre- 15 dieted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends, — please...

...which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brother 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 be no longer a name for pity, for doubt,...

...America, and it is this spirit that preserves the republic. Emerson has expressed it in a sentence: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." It is undoubtedly true that the largest influence in the development...

...institution. In New England, during August, 1837, Emerson, speaking on " The American Scholar," was saying : " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." But in none of these respects was the South accomplishing much;...

...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,...predicted geographically, as the North, or the South?" Then followed his famous declaration to Americans, " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with...

...; — not to be l reckoned one character ; — not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross,...hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to s which we belong ; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers...

...eg, this from Doctor Van Dyke's book before referred to: " Emerson has expressed it in a sentence: we will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." Where a quotation is less than a line in length a comma is sufficient...

...predicted geographically, as the North, or the South?" Then followed his famous declaration to Americans, " We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." No American author has done more to exalt the individual, to inspire...

...anchor in the past : he must sail onward in the present to the future. And he concludes in summary : 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 be no longer a name for pity, for doubt,...