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" Mr. President and Gentlemen, this conlideuce in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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The International Quarterly, Volume 8

Frederick Albert Richardson - 1903 - 460 pages
...words which are the very essence of this declaration of our intellectual independence. "This confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs by all motives,...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame." But henceforth, " please God, we will walk on our feet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak...
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 14

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 pages
...it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all. Mr. President and gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives,...prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We hare listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already...
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American Literature

Julian Willis Abernethy - 1902 - 520 pages
...plunging ; also for an independent, self-respecting culture. "We have listened too long," he says, "to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame." It was " our intellectual Declaration of Independence," says Holmes. "Young men went out from it as...
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American Literature

Julian Willis Abernethy - 1902 - 552 pages
...were plunging; also for an independent, self-respecting culture. "We have listened too long," he says, "to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspetted to be timid, imitative, tame." It was " our intellectual Declaration of Independence," says...
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Nature ; Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 pages
...it is for you to frnow all ; it is for you to dare alL Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives,...Public and private avarice make the air we breathe Suck and firt. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The...
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 2

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1903 - 426 pages
...trumpet — an appeal that has inspired followers after truth from that day to this: "This confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecies, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Lothrop Motley: Two Memoirs

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1904 - 592 pages
...contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be a university of knowledges. . . . We have listened too long to the courtly muses of...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. . . . The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. . . . The mind of this country, taught to aim at...
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Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders ..., Volume 14

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 508 pages
...it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all. Mr. President and gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives,...muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman ia already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breathe...
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Studies in Poetry and Criticism

John Churton Collins - 1905 - 328 pages
...constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years? . . . We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe. The spirit of the American is suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick...
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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...is for you to know all ; it is for you to dare all. Mr. President and Gentlemen, 5 this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives,...freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, 10 tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent,...
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