 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 pages
...lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something ( , better than the exertions of mechanical skill.' \ Our day of dependence, our long...apprenticeship^ to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.1 / I The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains... | |
 | British Academy - 1968 - 542 pages
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 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 740 pages
...related to the intellectual attitude of America in 1837, and as a protest against its provincialism. ' Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close . . . We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds ...... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1905 - 550 pages
...society at Harvard. At the outset, as in the opening lines of Nature, he sounds the cry of freedom: "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close." Then he writes of the three great influences which surround the scholar — that of nature, that of... | |
 | 1901 - 610 pages
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 | Robert Marion La Follette - 1906 - 532 pages
...the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, OUT long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands,...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... | |
 | Charles Henry Caffin - 1907 - 442 pages
...Declaration of Independence." In it Emerson sounded a new note. " Our day of dependence," he said, " our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands,...arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves." The utterance represents a singular combination of fallacy and truth. For in the kingdom of thought,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...Heavy eyelids. 2 Years during which a youth is bound out to learn a trade. ESSAYS OF EMKRSON — 3 33 other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around...be sung, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt 5 that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames... | |
 | Charles Henry Caffin - 1907 - 428 pages
...Declaration of Independence." In it Emerson sounded a new note. " Our day of dependence," he said, " our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands,...cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign [47] harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves." The utterance... | |
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