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
| 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,...The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign [47] harvests. Events, actions arise, that must... | |
| 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 us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere ' remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be... | |
| William Cranston Lawton - 1907 - 392 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... | |
| Charles Henry Caffin - 1907 - 420 pages
...resources of American painting were fertilised by foreign influence. For Emerson's doctrine, that " our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close," had been put to the test and found wanting. It could arouse a motive, and a good one; but not provide... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 508 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,... | |
| 1909 - 540 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 - 1909 - 512 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...of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that -STCUh-d iis are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events,... | |
| Percy MacKaye - 1909 - 240 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation 15 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, 20 actions, arise that must be... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...the courts of great ai ^iis or princes. 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, caniot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, s that must be... | |
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