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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 pages
...grandeur in these hurried, slipshod lives, but the behavior of the young men has taught us much. We will not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear. Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1883 - 472 pages
...grandeur in these hurried, slipshod lives, but the behavior of the young men has taught us much. We will not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear. Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 400 pages
...grandeur in these hurried, slipshod lives, but the behavior of the young men has taught us much. We will not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear. Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 434 pages
...grandeur in these hurried, slipshod lives, but the behavior of the young men has taught us much. Wo will not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear. Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of... | |
| John Jay Chapman - Fiction - 1898 - 276 pages
...political action." And it was almost a personal pledge when he said at the Harvard Commemoration in 1865, "We shall not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear." The place which Emerson forever occupies as a great critic is denned by the same sharp outlines that... | |
| John Jay Chapman - Literature - 1898 - 264 pages
...political action." And it was almost a personal pledge when he said at the Harvard Commemoration in 1865, "We shall not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear." The place which Emerson forever occupies as a great critic is defined by the same sharp outlines that... | |
| Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 474 pages
...fallen, they who came by night to his funeral on the morrow returned to his war-path, to show his slayers the way to death ! Ah ! young brothers, all honor...you ! you, manly defenders, Liberty's and Humanity's home guard. We shall not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear. We see... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - Authors, American - 1901 - 538 pages
...was very likely after reading this poem that Emerson wrote in his diary, 17 January, 1802 : " We will not again disparage America now that we have seen what men it will bear. What a certificate of good elements in the soil, climate, and institutions is Lowell, whose admirable... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 468 pages
...fallen, they who came by night to his funeral on the morrow returned to his warpath to show his slayers the way to death! Ah! young brothers, all honor and...you! you, manly defenders, liberty's and humanity's home guard. We shall not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear. We see... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 704 pages
...fallen, they who came by night to his funeral, on the morrow returned to the war-path to show his slayers the way to death ! Ah ! young brothers, all honor...gratitude to you, — you, manly defenders, Liberty's and HARVARD COMMEMORATION 345 Humanity's bodyguard ! We shall not again disparage America, now that we... | |
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