 | Martin Bickman - 2003 - 193 pàgines
...him as searching for a working dialectical relation among all three. Emerson considers "nature" to be "the first in time and the first in importance of the influences on the mind" (p. 55), yet it gets the shortest treatment. One reason is that his book, Nature, already... | |
 | Nancy J. Nordenson - 2003 - 196 pàgines
...therefore, a common venue for discovery. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his essay "The American Scholar," "Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, Night and...and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages" (emphasis added).20 In a similar vein, the Old Testament psalmist continually... | |
 | David Carr - 2006 - 180 pàgines
...soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.""' On what is the heroic character founded? "Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, Night and...and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages."" Think of the Emersonian scholar in our contemporary world as the individual,... | |
 | Henry Beston - 2007 - 520 pàgines
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The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of Nature. Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, Night and her stars. Ever the winds blow ; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and... 
