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
| Wilfred M. McClay - 1994 - 386 pages
...words of his "American Scholar": Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit — not to be reckoned one character — not to yield that...thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong. . . . Not so, brothers and friends — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet;... | |
| Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 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 own... | |
| Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 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... | |
| Andreas Hess - 2003 - 504 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...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... | |
| Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 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...the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we 26 belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and... | |
| Susan Jacoby - 2008 - 384 pages
...world, not to be a unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that peculiar truit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand . . . Not so, brothers and triends — please God, ours shall not be so." NOTES CHAPTER ONE; THE WAY... | |
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