 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 - Pàgina 21per Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1835 - 616 pàgines
...start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young mea 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... | |
 | 1838 - 536 pàgines
...becomes noxious. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking. 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... | |
 | 1844 - 638 pàgines
...communication. Nothing can bo greater than it." In an oration to our scholars, he encourages them with : 'i 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... | |
 | 1844 - 648 pàgines
...communication. Nothing can be greater than tí." In an oration to our scholars, he encourages them with : " 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 - 1848 - 400 pàgines
...tyrant. We sought a brother, and lo! a governor. The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, always slow to open to the incursions of Reason, having once...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 - 1848 - 384 pàgines
...tyrant. We sought a brother, and lo! a governor. The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, always slow to open to the incursions of Reason, having once...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 - 1849 - 414 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pàgines
...literature, afraid lest the youth become a bookworm, and not a man thinking. But how well he says : " 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... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pàgines
...through, And my luncheon fast cooling ¡--this never will do. In the words of a living essayist, " 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... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pàgines
...than dead " men of antiquity. He is not one of those " meek young men " of whom Emerson speaks, who "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... | |
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