 | 1920 - 158 páginas
...principles," And then, turning to the way out : "The office of the scholar [ie, of Whitman's literatus] is to cheer, to raise and to guide men by showing them fads amid appearances." Whitman himself, a full generation later, found that office still unfilled.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor - 1964 - 558 páginas
...responsibility for the development of the quality of public opinion. Emerson once put the mandate clearly : "The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise,...guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances." And for this labor in public affairs, he assured us of an ample reward : "He who puts forth his total... | |
 | United States. President (1963-1969 : Johnson) - 1965 - 882 páginas
...handed this challenge to America's learned men: "The office of the scholar," he said, "is to cheer and to raise and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He is the world's eye, and he is the world's heart." Today, as we meet here in this historic East Room,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1967 - 752 páginas
...handed this challenge to America's learned men : "The office of the scholar," he said, "is to cheer and to raise and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He is the world's eye, and he is the world's heart." Today, as we meet here in this historic East Room,... | |
 | Barton Levi St Armand - 1986 - 388 páginas
...spirits" that pervaded his personal life also characterized his literary pursuits. As Emerson had written, "The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise,...guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances" (Works 1:100). Emily Dickinson was not the only one who benefited from this kind of cheery guidance,... | |
 | David Jacobson - 2010 - 221 páginas
...to develop and to teach this ethic. In "The American Scholar," for instance, he writes of the duties "such as become Man Thinking. . . . They may all be comprised in self-trust" (CW 1:62). From self-reliance stems the command to authentic speech, and thus the self-reliant individual... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1990 - 207 páginas
...calls (American) scholars, to whom he had given warning in his earlier, most famous address to them: The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and...guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. . . . Long he must stammer in his speech; often forego the living for the dead. Worse yet, he must... | |
 | George M. Fredrickson - 1965 - 300 páginas
...had found, or, more accurately, to show others how to find the truth for themselves. His function was "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances."7 His influence, of course, would be completely spiritual, for he could speak as the representative... | |
 | W. Clark Gilpin - 1996 - 248 páginas
...citizens to the possibilities resident and available in ordinary life, and the scholar's office was "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances." In the patient, even solitary, adding of observation to observation the scholar aspired amidst custom... | |
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And labor is everywhere welcome ; always we are invited to work ; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action. 
