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" 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 344
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pages
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The Freeman, Volume 2

1920 - 598 pages
...the Old World. WHEN Emerson asked: "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...which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned by the gross, in the hundreds and thousands, of the party, of the section to which we belong, and our...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...the world, nqt_tp_be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield tEaTTpeculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be...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...
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Variations

James Huneker - 1921 - 294 pages
...follow under socialistic regimentation! "Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be a unit; to be reckoned one character; not to yield that peculiar...created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundreds of thousands, of the party, of the section to which we belong, and our opinion predicted geographically...
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Steeplejack, Volume 1

James Huneker - 1921 - 368 pages
...our national prosperity. Says Emerson: "Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be a unit; to be reckoned one character, not to yield that peculiar...which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned by the gross, in the hundreds of thousands, of the party, of the section to which we belong, and our...
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Variations

James Huneker - 1921 - 296 pages
...was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundreds of thousands, of the party, of the section to which we belong, and our opinion predicted geographically as the North or the South?" These words were not uttered by a Socialist; they emanated from the crystal-clear intellect of our...
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The Praise of Folly: And Other Papers

Bliss Perry - 1923 - 248 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 with our own...
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The Essential American Tradition: An Anthology of Striking and Significant ...

Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 374 pages
...will come around to him. ... 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...
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Education, Volume 45

1925 - 666 pages
...the chief disgrace in the world, not to be a unit, not to be reckoned one character, not to yield the peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear,...gross, in the hundred, or the thousand of the party, and our opinion predicated geographically as the north or the south?"66 Moreover, the scholar must...
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Egoists: A Book of Supermen; Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole ...

James Huneker - 1925 - 398 pages
...was created to 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 as the North or the South?" Herbert Spencer did not write these words, nor Max Stirner. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote them. What some...
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