 | Mary Oliver - 2004 - 126 páginas
...first powerful or cautionary or lovely effect. "The office of the scholar," he wrote in "The American Scholar," "is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances." The lofty fun of it is that his "appearances" were all merely material and temporal — brick walls,... | |
 | Tiffany K. Wayne - 2005 - 184 páginas
...intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. I have now spoken of the education of the scholar ... It remains to say somewhat of his duties. They are...Thinking. They may all be comprised in self-trust. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, I8372 Despite criticisms that The Una newspaper was only fond of "talking of... | |
 | Erin Gruwell - 2007 - 808 páginas
...what other generations have done — men who are creative, inventive, and discoverers. — JEAN PIAGET The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amid appearances. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON, FROM HIS BOOK THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR; SELF-RELIANCE; COMPENSATION... | |
 | Randall Fuller - 2007 - 232 páginas
...splendor an integrated and fully quickened "Man Thinking!' This harmonizing thinker, whose duty was "to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances" (EL 63), would accomplish his task by employing the resources of Nature, books, and action. And he... | |
 | Leslie Butler - 2009 - 400 páginas
...National Crisis 17 Manlike Let Him Turn and Face the Danger 20 The World's Eye . . . the World's Heart 26 To Cheer, to Raise, and to Guide Men by Showing Them Facts amidst Appearances 35 This Revolution Is to Be Wrought by the Gradual Domestication of the Ideal of Culture 42 2. The... | |
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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. 
