Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. Modern English Prose - Página 354editado por - 1904 - 481 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 páginas
...this book, stands upon it, and makes an outcry, if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking...accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bauon, have given ; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when... | |
| 1928 - 776 páginas
...the very measure of their commanding truth to wean their inheritors from their own essential virtue. "Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it...Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote those books." Emerson left many things unsaid, indeed. Disciplined himself in a long intellectual tradition,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 páginas
...book, stands upon it, and '.nukes an outcry, if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. B >oks are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking;...their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up iu libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 336 páginas
...this book, stands upon it, and makes an outcry, if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking...talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accept ed dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 páginas
...this book, stands upon it, and makes an outcry, if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talcntljhat.isj wio. start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from tjieir own~sig1it of principles.... | |
| 1881 - 302 páginas
...affections. Simplicity doth tend towards God ; purity doth apprehend and taste him. — Thomas a Kempis. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1882 - 402 páginas
...liberated himself from all authorities. In his first lecture at Harvard University (1837) he said : " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." In this spirit he gathered up the literature of the past into himself, but it was transmuted into his... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 344 páginas
...liberated himself from all authorities. In his first lecture at Harvard University (1837) he said: "Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." In this spirit he gathered up the literature of the past into himself, but it was transmuted into his... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 páginas
...this book, stands upon it, and makes an outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking...talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accep^ dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 páginas
...is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thi nking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from thcir own sight of principles. [Mcek young men grow up in librarics,] belicving it thcir duty to. aecept... | |
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