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It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode .
It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what
is useful . Man is never weary of working it up . He forges the subtile and ...
It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode .
It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what
is useful . Man is never weary of working it up . He forges the subtile and ...
Página 81
... of the wrong one . ” In life , too often , the scholar errs with mankind and forfeits
his privilege . Let us see him in his school , and consider him in reference to the
main influences he receives . I . The first in time and the first in Man Thinking , 81.
... of the wrong one . ” In life , too often , the scholar errs with mankind and forfeits
his privilege . Let us see him in his school , and consider him in reference to the
main influences he receives . I . The first in time and the first in Man Thinking , 81.
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... the influence of the past , and perhaps we shall get at the truth , - learn the
amount of this influence more conveniently , — by considering their value alone .
The theory of books is noble . The scholar of the first age received into him the
world ...
... the influence of the past , and perhaps we shall get at the truth , - learn the
amount of this influence more conveniently , — by considering their value alone .
The theory of books is noble . The scholar of the first age received into him the
world ...
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The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude , always slow to open to the
incursions of Reason , having once so opened , having once received this book ,
stands upon it , and makes an outcry , if it is disparaged . Colleges are built on it .
The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude , always slow to open to the
incursions of Reason , having once so opened , having once received this book ,
stands upon it , and makes an outcry , if it is disparaged . Colleges are built on it .
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On the other part , instead of being its own seer , let it receive always from
another mind its truth , though it were in torrents of light , without periods of
solitude , inquest , and self - recovery , and a fatal disservice is done . Genius is
always ...
On the other part , instead of being its own seer , let it receive always from
another mind its truth , though it were in torrents of light , without periods of
solitude , inquest , and self - recovery , and a fatal disservice is done . Genius is
always ...
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Página 77 - Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be 78 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 of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.
Página 6 - To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.
Página 83 - Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the act of thought, — Is transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward it is settled, the book is perfect ; as love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue.
Página 251 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Página 25 - It is not words only that are emblematic; it is things which are emblematic. Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
Página 8 - Crossing a bare common in snow puddles at twilight under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Página 3 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Página 86 - 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. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear, that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, "A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
Página 79 - In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking. In this view of him, as Man Thinking, the theory of his office is contained.
Página 4 - There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.
Informações bibliográficas
| Título | Orations, Lectures and Essays |
| Autor | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editora | Charles Griffin, 1866 |
| Original de | Oxford University |
| Digitalizado | 31 jul. 2006 |
| Num. págs. | 290 páginas |
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