| 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...young men in libraries when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-wonn. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books,... | |
| 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...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." " Books are good only to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pàgines
...that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence the book-learned class, who value books,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pàgines
...that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books. This is bad; this is worse than it seems. Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pàgines
...that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pàgines
...that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libralies, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence,... | |
| 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...young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. " Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,... | |
| 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...forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men and libraries when they wrote those books . . . The writer was ajust and wise man. Henceforward it... | |
| 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...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." We will detain the reader no longer, but will at once introduce him to the work before us. The author... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pàgines
...that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books,... | |
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