...Independence," Emerson says : " Our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands draws to a close. . . . 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 himself to be inspired by...

...convictions of right and duty, as Emerson would have had 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?" In spite of our good Woodrow and our lamented Theodore I have quite made up my mind that there is no...

...far distant future the time when she could realize the status depicted by Emerson: "We will walk with our own feet; We will work with our own hands; We will speak with our own mind." The campaign for President in 1841 developed much excitement, in fact it has only...

...instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. We will walk on our own f eet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds" 2) — „Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the uni verse ? Why should not wehaveapoetry...

...America, and it is this spirit that preserves the republic. Emerson has expressed it in a sentence: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." It may be true that the largest influence in the development of this spirit came from the Puritans...

...England to individualism, self-reliance, sincerity, and courage, and above all to cultivate soul freedom: "We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds." Daring words these I and an eager crowd listened breathlessly to this new voice. Holmes styled the...

...reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north,...name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. 106 The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defense and a wreath of joy around all....

...word that was not entirely his own. This resolution of the writer was also the resolution of the man. "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 himself inspired by the Divine...

...of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. . .we will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.' Telescoped this way, I must say it sounds a little too quixotic and hairy-chested, a little too like...

...beginning of "The American Scholar," concluding with a series of calls that echo the Twenty-third Psahn: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our...name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. ... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine...