 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 264 psl.
...preparation, to the American scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...taught to. aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There *» no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin... | |
 | 1838 - 536 psl.
...The world is nothing, the man is all." " We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The American freeman is already suspected to be timid,...fat." " The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant." " What is the remedy ? If the single... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 psl.
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 psl.
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 psl.
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 psl.
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 psl.
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for -any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men. of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 psl.
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private a_vajice_ make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 psl.
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 psl.
...preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated... | |
| |
The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant. 
