...Bulletin." If Wirt can carry his religious scheme into the schools he will be the first one to do it. "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." — Emerson. February 22-25: Department of Superintendence, National Education Association, Detroit....

...had better have gone afoot. g. EMERSON — Letters auditorial Aim.*. (¿notation and Or'njinality. d so; and they shook hands, and sw h. EMERSON — Leiters and Social Aims. (¿notation and Originality. Onr best thought came from others....

...had better have gone afoot. g. EMEBSON — Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality. Neit well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice A. EJDEBSON— Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality. Our best thought came from others....

...as long as he serves us so well. We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's hy. If he had lover, wife, or children, we hear nothing...As a good chimney burns its smoke, so a philosopher author, Landor replies : " Yet he was more original than his originals. Hebreathed upon dead bodies...

...as long as he serves us so well. We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear...of borrowing. Genius borrows nobly. When Shakspeare i» charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies : " Yet he was more original than his originals....

...thought was always dear to the writer himself ; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radlancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all...and west. Then there are great ways of borrowing. Genins borrows nobly. When Shakspeare is charged with debtsto his authors, Landor replies : " Yet he...

...readable. The author thinks for himself and is a master at quotation. If Emerson's saying be true, " Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it," then Mr. Batchelder is next to many great writers. The reader can scarcely turn to a page without finding...

...Channiny. Nothing is more simple than greatness ; indeed, to be simple is to be great. Literary Ethics, Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it-1 Quotation and Originality. It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself,...

...of a good sentenee is the first queter of it. Many will read the hook before one thinks of queting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be queted east and wost. Then there are great ways of borrewing. Genins borrews nobly. When Shakspeare...

...quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. " Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." — — " The Progress of Culture," his second Phi Beta Kappa oration, has already been mentioned....