| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 páginas
...for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action. I have now spoken of the education of the scholar by...cheer, to raise; and to guide men by showing them ja£ts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaUtask oToBservation. Flamsteed and... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 páginas
...for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action. I have now spoken of the education of the scholar by...action. It remains to say somewhat of his duties. honored, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed1 and Herschel, in their glazed observatories, may... | |
| Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 páginas
...great sources of education — nature, books, and action — Emerson proceeds to examine the scholar's duties. "They are such as become Man Thinking. They...cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amid appearances." This being his function, "it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself, and... | |
| Benjamin Harrison Lehman - 1928 - 226 páginas
...The American Scholar foreshadowed the full conception.13 The Scholar is' Man Thinking'; his office 'is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts among appearances'; he reveals the one design that 'unites and animates the farthest pinnacle and the... | |
| 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,... | |
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