 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.  Works - Page 113by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Percy MacKaye - 1909 - 236 pages
...thousand years ? " And in concluding his address, he said : "Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives,...private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined... | |
 | William Morton Payne - 1910 - 512 pages
...affirm it to be the crack of doom." The conclusion of this oration was marked by these ringing periods: "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Politics and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...is for you to know all ; it is for 30 you to dare all. Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence 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. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...traits is the boy like the ancient Greeks? (Page 41, 1. 12.) 23. Do you know of any instances where "Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat"? (Page*45, 1. 14.) QUESTIONS AND TOPICS ON SELF-RELIANCE. 1. What do you think of Emerson's definition... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 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,...long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of tbe_Ainerican freeman -is. .alr^ead^ susp_ecied-io be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice... | |
 | Loring Holmes Dodd - 1915 - 96 pages
...John Fox, Jr.: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. Ch. 14 Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives,...prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. Emerson: The American Scholar O my friends, there are resources in us on which we have not drawn. Emerson:... | |
 | Johan Huizinga - 1920 - 280 pages
...schijnt hem in de dingen van het leven wonderlijk onzelfstandig. Emerson beklaagde het al in 1837: „the spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame" l). Een zin voor conformiteit, een vrees om van het goede model af te wijken, beheerscht de gedragingen.... | |
 | 1921 - 878 pages
...declared by Emerson in his oration The American Scholar in 1837. " We," said the stalwart American, "have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe....is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame." But in no wise can Emerson be said to be the Jefferson of our intellectual independence. His is but... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...is for you to know all ; it is for BO you to dare all. Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives,...spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to 25 be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1923 - 248 pages
...never forgive me for not quoting word for word : . . . Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives,...is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame: 105 Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent,... | |
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