Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. Essays for College Men: 2d Series - Página 81de Norman Foerster - 1915 - 385 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1835 - 616 páginas
...years. Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, — so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are...directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in oilier men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must,... | |
| 1838 - 536 páginas
...a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. Genius looks forward. Man hopes. Genius creates." " Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings." "One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading, as well as creative writing."... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 páginas
...hundred years. Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are...when the intervals of darkness come,— as come they must,—when the soul seeth not, when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, we repair... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 páginas
...hundred years. Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are...their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come,—as come they must,— when the soul seeth not, when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw... | |
| 430 páginas
...obligation to the inspiriting and fortifying influences of his genins. We turn to it with confidence, " when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the soul seeth not, when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to this lamp,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 páginas
...way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instrument. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...darkness come, — as come they must, — when the soul seeth not, when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, we repair to the lamps which... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 páginas
...hundred years. Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books • / are for the scholar's idle times. When he can \j read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 páginas
...Thinking must not be subdued by his i ; instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When - " S" f he can read God directly, the hour is too precious...men's transcripts of their readings. But when the inII tervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is, tl is hid, and the stars withdraw... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 páginas
...hundred years. Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking, must not .be subdued by his instruments. Books are...too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts ^eadings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid, and... | |
| 1921 - 744 páginas
...the human constitution, but making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul." Man thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are...the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's manuscripts of their readings. But when intervals of darkness come, as come they must, • — then... | |
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