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
| Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1905 - 376 pages
...disgrace of the world not to 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,... | |
| 1906 - 794 pages
...prevalent, the conversion of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace of 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, our» shall not be so: we will walk on our own feet; we will work with our... | |
| Jeremiah Whipple Jenks - 1906 - 286 pages
...world of value is the active soul 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...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... | |
| 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...conversion of 5 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...hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to 10 which we belong ; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south ? Not so,... | |
| 1909 - 540 pages
...prevalent, the conversion of the world. 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...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 - 1909 - 636 pages
...prevalent, the conversion of the world. 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...the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we bekmg; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends,... | |
| James Huneker - 1921 - 428 pages
...of the Individual, not his debasement. "Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be a unit; to be reckoned one character; not to yield that peculiar...bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred of thousands, of the party, of the section to which we belong, and our opinion predicted geographically... | |
| James Huneker - 1909 - 404 pages
...of the Individual, not his debasement. "Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be a unit; to be reckoned one character; not to yield that peculiar...bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred of thousands, of the party, of the section to which we belong, and our opinion predicted geographically... | |
| William Morton Payne - 1910 - 470 pages
...decorous and the complaisant. ... 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...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... | |
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