Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid and the stars... Orations, Lectures and Essays - Página 88de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 290 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Jeffrey C. Isaac - 1998 - 268 páginas
...intellectual confines of reigning paradigms and professional expectations. "Books," Emerson wrote, "are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read...precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings."38 Political theory has professionally arrived. Political theorists have demonstrated their... | |
| Jerome Loving - 2000 - 642 páginas
...scholars idle times." When the Ametican could read God directly in nature and experience, the hour was "too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings." Another person who showered praise on Whitman was William O'Connor, whose Harrington appeared that... | |
| Marlies Kronegger, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2000 - 342 páginas
...experience with others. All art can function like the books Emerson describes in "The American Scholar": "Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...intervals of darkness come, as come they must, - when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, - we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their... | |
| Jamie Lorentzen - 2001 - 236 páginas
...way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their... | |
| Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 páginas
...way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...intervals of darkness come, as come they must — when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their... | |
| Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - 2003 - 186 páginas
...counseled the graduating seniors at Harvard in 1832: Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...intervals of darkness come, as come they must,— when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining,— we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their... | |
| James S. Ackerman - 2002 - 356 páginas
...Shakespearized now for two hundred years. . . . Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments . . . when he can read God directly, the hour is too precious...wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings." Fssays and Lectures, 58. But the idea is older than Emerson; a century before, Edward Young had written... | |
| Kurt Spellmeyer - 2003 - 328 páginas
...contemporaries. As he wrote in "The American Scholar," "Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings."20 Of course, Emerson's God was not the God of the theologians, but an immanent reality always... | |
| 156 páginas
...that he read for what he termed "lustres." Moreover, even for the scholar, he thought books were for idle times: "When he can read God directly, the hour...wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings," Emerson writes in "The American Scholar." "But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must,... | |
| Linnie Marsh Wolfe - 2003 - 444 páginas
...Perhaps he recalled something Emerson had written : "Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious...wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings." Could this be the same Emerson, old and weary and smothered in cotton-wool by friends, who worshipped... | |
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