Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Essays in Astronomy - Page 3131900 - 536 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 pages
...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...The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 pages
...nothing. We are to be units, walk on our own feet, think our own thoughts, and speak our own minds." " Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests." " No age should humbly follow the books... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...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...The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions, arise, that must be... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pages
...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...The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectations of the world with something better than the exertions...The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 606 pages
...intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectations of the world with something better than the exertions...The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectations of the world with something better than the exertions...The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
...intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectations of the world with something better than the exertions...The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...the courts of great barons or priii'ces. They were also known as Provencal minstrels. 4 Heavy lids. mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long...The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,... | |
| Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger - 1894 - 320 pages
...: VOL. II. T ' Perhaps the time is already come . . . when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed...The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.' 3 There were four men who at length... | |
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