Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; not to be reckoned one character; not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or... Demonology and Devil-lore - Page 205by Moncure Daniel Conway - 1879Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 394 pages
...peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which...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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...thousand, of the party, the seetion, to which we belong ; and our opinion predieted geographieally, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends,...God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own fcet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 pages
...peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 pages
...peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which...; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the nortb, or the south ? Not so, brothers and friends, — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of tho party, tho section, to which we belong ; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or tho south 1 Not so, brothers and friends, — please God, ours shall not bo so. We will walk on our... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 pages
...peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which...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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which...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,... | |
| James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 848 pages
...demanded that the individual man " plant himself indomitably on his instincts and there abide. . . . We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. . . . A nation of freemen will for the first time exist, because each... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pages
...peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which...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,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 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 own hands; we will speak our own minds. ... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes... | |
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