 | Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger - Europe - 1894 - 320 pages
...iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence — our long...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.' 3 There were four men who at length attracted the attention of Europe to the productions of transatlantic... | |
 | Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger - Europe - 1894 - 320 pages
...the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence—our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands,...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.' 3 There were four men who at length attracted the attention of Europe to the productions of transatlantic... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Citizenship - 1897 - 264 pages
...iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long...star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in oui zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years ? In this hope... | |
 | Edward Singleton Holden, Mrs. Richard F. Bond - Astronomers - 1897 - 336 pages
...iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long...around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed with the sere remains of foreign harvests." BENJAMIN PEIRCE, a graduate of Harvard in the class of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Citizenship - 1897 - 268 pages
...iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long...the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The milVions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - English literature - 1898 - 346 pages
...iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long...always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. ... I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pages
...iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long...star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in oui zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years ? In this hope... | |
 | Education - 1899 - 726 pages
...function of the public school and the college. Pleading- for self-reliance and more originality he said : "Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...The millions that around us are rushing into life can not always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events and actions arise that must be... | |
 | Astronomy - 1900 - 600 pages
...iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long...The millions that around us are rushing into life can not always be fed with the sere remains of foreign harvests." Benjamin Peirce, a graduate of Harvard... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - American literature - 1901 - 392 pages
...faith and read Vt through. Even extracts show its dominant note to be inspiring individuality: — " Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to...into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of'foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt... | |
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Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions... 
