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" 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 313
1900 - 536 pages
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American Literature

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...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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American Traits from the Point of View of a German

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...the millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the remains of foreign harvests." And as the first necessary condition of such...
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American Traits from the Point of View of a German

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...the millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the remains of foreign harvests." And as the first necessary condition of such...
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The American Scholar: An Address

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 140 pages
...of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skilL Our day of dependence, oar 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. Events, actions, arise that must be sung,...
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 14

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 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,...
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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Prose tales

Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 492 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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Tales

Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 480 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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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volumes 1-2

Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 522 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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American Literature

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...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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Introduction to the Study of American Literature

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...
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