 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
 | Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger - 1894 - 320 pages
...the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence—our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands,...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... | |
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...festivals or at the courts of great barons or princes. They were also known as Proven9al minstrels. 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,... | |
 | Edward Singleton Holden - 1897 - 338 pages
...first into practical life, as was but natural ; science felt its impulse next, and, last of all, a literature was born. EMERSON hailed it in 1837 "as...The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed with the sere remains of foreign harvests." BENJAMIN PEIRCE, a graduate of Harvard... | |
 | Edward Singleton Holden, Mrs. Richard F. Bond - 1897 - 336 pages
...1837 " as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come — he says—when the sluggard intellect of this country will look from...The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed with the sere remains of foreign harvests." BENJAMIN PEIRCE, a graduate of Harvard... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 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 learning of other lands, draws to a close. The milVions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1898 - 346 pages
...in his ringing address on " The American Scholar," " 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. ... I ask not for the great, the remote,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 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,... | |
 | Frederick Albert Richardson - 1903 - 460 pages
...the time is already come," said the young speaker, " 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,... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1900 - 458 pages
.... . . when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fulfill the postponed expectation of the world with something...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,... | |
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