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
| Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 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 - 1888 - 402 páginas
...shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to Ihe second age. Each age, it is found, must write its...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... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1888 - 232 páginas
...manly and independent, slightly assertive, as becomes the spokesman of a literature on its trial. " 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 - 1892 - 656 páginas
...pure thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to cotemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 páginas
...perverted mind of the multitude, slow to open to the incursions of reason, having once so opened, having received this book, stands upon it and makes an outcry...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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 páginas
...perverted mind of the multitude, slow to open to the incursions of reason, having once so opened, having received this book, stands upon it and makes an outcry...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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 páginas
...perverted mind of the multitude, slow to open to the incursions of reason, having once so opened, having received this book, stands upon it and makes an outcry...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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 574 páginas
...perverted mind of the multitude, slow to open to the incursions of reason, having once so opened, having received this book, stands upon it and makes an outcry...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... | |
| 1896 - 374 páginas
...Dome of day," ie, the sky. 2 " Knowledge as to," etc., ie, knowledge will become a creator for him. tion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so...moral and intellectual culture of the ancient world. which Bacon,1 have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 páginas
...Reason, having once so opened, having once received this book, stands upon it, and makes an outcry if k is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are...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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