 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 the thousand, of the party, the...  Modern Eloquence - Page 437edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Cornel West - 1989 - 292 pages
...extent, is the upbringing of a man. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; —not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that...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... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 pages
...concept of the national culture: "Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that...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... | |
 | Wilfred M. McClay - 1994 - 386 pages
...words of his "American Scholar": Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit — not to be reckoned one character — not to yield that...thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong. . . . Not so, brothers and friends — please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet;... | |
 | Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 pages
...prevalent, the conversion of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit — not to be reckoned one character — not to yield that...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... | |
 | Andreas Hess - 2003 - 504 pages
...prevalent, the conversion of the world. 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...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... | |
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...the conversion of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that...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... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2004 - 408 pages
...the conversion of the world. 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. . . . We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. On... | |
 | Marjorie Warvelle Bear - 2007 - 554 pages
...commented upon it... "Is it not the chief disgrace in the world," he said, "not to be an unit; not to be reckoned one character; not to yield that peculiar...but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred or thousand, of the party, the section to which we belong..." It was an unerring instinct which led Emerson... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...prevalent, the conversion of the world. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; - not to be reckoned one character; - not to yield that...the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we 26 belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and... | |
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