 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
 | 1900 - 600 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...The millions that around us are rushing into life can not always be fed with the sere remains of foreign harvests." Benjamin Peirce, a graduate of Harvard... | |
 | 1882 - 462 pages
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 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1901 - 392 pages
...faith and read Vt through. Even extracts show its dominant note to be inspiring individuality: — " Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of'foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt... | |
 | Hugo Münsterberg - 1901 - 266 pages
...searching for truth which is too high for the American nation. They think, as Emerson said, that " our days of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning...are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the remains of foreign harvests." And as the first necessary condition of such a change they seek a clear... | |
 | Hugo Münsterberg - 1901 - 264 pages
...searching for truth which is too high for the American nation. They think, as Emerson said, that " our days of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning...are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the remains of foreign harvests." And as the first necessary condition of such a change they seek a clear... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1902 - 534 pages
...his memorable address at Harvard Col- Literary inlege on "The American Scholar," said: dePendence " Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...arise that must be sung, that will sing themselves." This address was itself received as evidence that the American intellect had achieved its independence.... | |
 | William Cranston Lawton - 1902 - 400 pages
...Emerson felt he could not ignore even so shrill and vulgar a response to his famous bugle call of 1837 : "Our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close. . . . The sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids." Whitman's later work, and... | |
 | Lorenzo Sears - 1902 - 494 pages
...declaration of independence." The speaker opened with the announcement that our day of independence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close, and took up his theme of " Man Thinking " as opposed to the parrot of other men's thoughts. " Nature... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1903 - 426 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...millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot alwavs be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests." The scholar, according to Emerson, is Man Thinking,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 530 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. 1 The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign... | |
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