 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 the thousand, of the party, the...  Essays, Lectures and Orations - Page 344by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 pages
...the conversion of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit ; — not to be reckoned one character ; — not to yield that...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... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1898 - 346 pages
...given to the single person. ... Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit ; — not to be reckoned one character ; — not to yield that...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pages
...the conversion of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit ; — not to be reckoned one character ; — not to yield that...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... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pages
...prevalent, the conversion of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that...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... | |
 | Frederick Albert Richardson - 1903 - 460 pages
...his wonted placidity. "Is it not the chief disgrace in the world," he said, "not to be an unit; not to be reckoned one character; not to yield that peculiar...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,... | |
 | George Claude Lorimer - 1900 - 674 pages
...importance given to the single person. . . Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be a unit ; not to be reckoned one character ; not to yield that peculiar...was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross . . . and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north or the south. Not so, brothers and friends... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pages
...the conversion of the world. 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 he reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong:... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 600 pages
...the conversion of the world. 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 eacli man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 142 pages
...prevalent, the conversion of the world. 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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...the conversion of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character ; — not to yield that...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 \vith our... | |
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