Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions... The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 17by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
| Carl Ostrowski - 2004 - 284 pages
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| 1969 - 380 pages
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| Larzer Ziff - 2004 - 144 pages
...intellectual leader, carrying his message to lecture halls as well as publishing it in essays. "Our days of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," he had announced in 1837. "The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed... | |
| Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests" (E&L 53). This opening theme is reverted to in the final paragraph: "We have listened too long to the... | |
| Russell B. Goodman - 2005 - 216 pages
...address to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard in 1837, Emerson famously declares the following hope: Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests .... In this hope I accept the topic which not only usage but the nature of our association seem to... | |
| Meghan Fitzmaurice - 2006 - 122 pages
...iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long...to the learning of other lands, draws to a close." In looking at Europe, Americans took great pride in their country's newness, its vitality and energy,... | |
| Paul B. Armstrong - 2005 - 232 pages
...cease deferring to European traditions and, instead, to read experience and nature as primary texts. "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close," Emerson said in words that connect political emancipation to educational independence (64). "Colleges... | |
| John C. Shields - 2004 - 482 pages
...Byles's example will lead the way to literary separation from England and Europe; and Emerson urges that "our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close" (McMichael 1: 837). One is left wondering whether Emerson, had he been aware of these earlier attempts... | |
| Robert Allen Warrior - 278 pages
...continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world. . . . Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close" ( Whicher, 63-64).27 Scholars in Native studies have been anything but sluggards over the past three... | |
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