| Montrose Jonas Moses - 1910 - 570 sayfa
...institution. In New England, during August, 1837, Emerson, speaking on " The American Scholar," was saying : " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." But in none of these respects was the South accomplishing much; its every energy was spent in holding... | |
| William Morton Payne - 1910 - 512 sayfa
...geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brother and friends, please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The... | |
| Reuben Post Halleck - 1911 - 442 sayfa
...predicted geographically, as the North, or the South?" Then followed his famous declaration to Americans, " We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." No American author has done more to exalt the individual, to inspire him to act according to his own... | |
| W. Clark Gilpin - 1996 - 242 sayfa
...instincts, and there abide," the individual act would be the invention of society, the invention of America: "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." 60 Emerson thus indelibly stamped religious thought in America by his proclamation that the wholeness... | |
| W. Clark Gilpin - 1996 - 248 sayfa
...instincts, and there abide," the individual act would be the invention of society, the invention of America: "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."60 Emerson thus indelibly stamped religious thought in America by his proclamation that the wholeness... | |
| Judith L. Raiskin - 1996 - 354 sayfa
...other lands, draws to a close. . . . We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. . . . We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our minds.29 At the time that Schreiner's essay "South Africa" appeared in the Fortnightly Review, British... | |
| Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn - 1997 - 296 sayfa
...least prophetic, as American scientists rapidly achieved independence from their European forefathers: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds."' A similar cultural revolution occurred among painters. By mid-decade, the Hudson This paper is based... | |
| Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 sayfa
...emblematizes the act of political association as action, as the movement of an entire nation as one body: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds," he writes. "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by... | |
| Hephzibah Roskelly, Kate Ronald - 1998 - 212 sayfa
...individuals are not separable from the powers of the group, of the culture in which the individual resides: "A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men" (55 ). It's this connection between individual consciousness and national or public change and growth... | |
| Joan W. Goodwin - 1998 - 436 sayfa
...men in libraries when they wrote these books." Coming out of the libraries, Emerson's new scholars "will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands, we will speak our own minds."54 More unwarranted arrogance, Norton and Bowen would say, while "the likeminded," Emerson's... | |
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