| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 páginas
...outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong,...young men in libraries when they wrote these books. . . . One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would bring home the wealth... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 páginas
...outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong,...young men in libraries when they wrote these books. . . . One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would bring home the wealth... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 páginas
...outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong,...young men in libraries when they wrote these books. . . . One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would bring home the wealth... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 páginas
...outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong,...young men in libraries when they wrote these books. . . . One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would bring home the wealth... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 páginas
...outcry, if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong,...believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero,1 which Locke,2 1 Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman author, orator, and statesman. He... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 páginas
...be is oft led by the nose with gold. — Shakespeare. Meek young men grow up in libraries, beHeving it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which...young men in libraries when they wrote these books. — Emerson. Authority, though it err like others, hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, that skins... | |
| 1896 - 374 páginas
...preeminent as a specimen of the highest 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, 2 when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned... | |
| George A. Richardson - 1896 - 472 páginas
...it their duty to accept views which Cicero, Locke, Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, Bacon, were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. . . . I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attractions clear out of my own orbit... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 páginas
...outcry if k is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, hot from their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty... | |
| John Beattie Crozier - 1898 - 626 páginas
...they are our gods.' Or lastly, this on self-reliance, which was a great stimulus to me personally, ' Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books.' Nowhere indeed, will you find greater penetration and profundity, or greater refinement and delicacy... | |
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