Instantly the book becomes noxious; the guide is a tyrant. The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, slow to open to the incursions of Reason, having once so opened, having once received this book, stands upon it and makes an outcry if it is disparaged.... The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Página 21de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 674 páginas
...is settled the book is perfect; as love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue. Instantlv the book becomes noxious: the guide is a tyrant. The...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 394 páginas
...tyrant. The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, slow to open to the incursions of lieason, having once so opened, having once received this book,...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 páginas
...thinkers, not by Man Thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accep^ dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek...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... | |
| 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 their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 páginas
...so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be. But none is quite perfect. As no air-pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 páginas
..."rMt''"p^ — the act of thought, — is transferred^ to .. tUe record. The chanting was felt to bo a divine man : henceforth the chant is divine also....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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 páginas
...makes an outcry, if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by think, ers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who...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... | |
| Charles Frederick Johnson - 1886 - 268 páginas
...this book, stands upon it, and makes an outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built upon it. ... 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... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 páginas
...customs of the preceding age ; one's own view of duty should not be shadowed by other men's views." " 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 páginas
...so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be. But none is quite perfect. As no airpump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither...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... | |
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