 | Henry Watterson - 1903 - 510 pages
...convictions of right and duty, as Emerson would have him be. For was it not Emerson who exclaimed: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds"? Taking a hint from the whimsies of my archaic philosopher, Mr. Chairman, I shall begin by a repudiation... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 pages
...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 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... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1903 - 426 pages
...or the south. Not so, brothers and friends, — please God, ours shall not be so. . . . [Henceforth] 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. ...... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1904 - 592 pages
...to him." Each man must be a unit, — must yield that peculiar fruit which he was created to bear. "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our...the Divine Soul which also inspires all men. " This grand oration was our intellectual Declaration of Independence. Nothing like it had been heard in the... | |
 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 468 pages
...indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all. A nation of men will for the first time exist, because...inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." The next year, his address before the Divinity School at Cambridge carried his gospel of individualism... | |
 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 474 pages
...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 feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall no longer be a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The... | |
 | Le Baron Russell Briggs - 1904 - 264 pages
...put courage into ten thousand hearts. "Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string." " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds." " If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts and there abide, the huge world will... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Thomas Hebblewhite - 1904 - 902 pages
...pretension." ' ' Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. ' ' ' ' We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. ' ' "But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. ' '... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 564 pages
...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 feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we r will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and... | |
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We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. 
