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 dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence... Retrospect of Western Travel - Page 240by Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 239 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States - 1838 - 540 pages
...office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men, by showing them facts amid appearances. We will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. Then shall man no longer be a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man,... | |
| American literature - 1838 - 536 pages
...instincts prevalent, the conversion of the world." " We will walk on our own feet, brothers and friends ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds." Now to our thinking this is high doctrine — timely, and well put. We trust all who have heard or... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...south ? Not so, brothers and friends,—please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our °*n feet; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. Then shall man be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be a unit;—not to be reckoned one character;—not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created...work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. Then shall man be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends,—please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own...we will work with our own hands; we will speak our minds. Then shall man be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1849 - 414 pages
...instincts prevalent, the conversion of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit ; — not to be reckoned one character ; —...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...instincts prevalent, the conversation of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit ; — not to be reckoned one character ; —...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy of nature - 1856 - 402 pages
...be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which \ve belong ; and our opinion predicted geographically,...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1866 - 298 pages
...nothing, the man is all ; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends ; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason...with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. Then shall man be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...instincts prevalent, the conversion of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit ; — not to be reckoned one character ; —...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... | |
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