 | 1881 - 302 pàgines
...affections. Simplicity doth tend towards God ; purity doth apprehend and taste him. — Thomas a Kempis. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 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,... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1882 - 402 pàgines
...liberated himself from all authorities. In his first lecture at Harvard University (1837) he said : " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." In this spirit he gathered up the literature of the past into himself, but it was transmuted into his... | |
 | RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883 - 428 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 - 1883 - 392 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 - 1883 - 394 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,... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 344 pàgines
...liberated himself from all authorities. In his first lecture at Harvard University (1837) he said: "Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." In this spirit he gathered up the literature of the past into himself, but it was transmuted into his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 674 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 - 1883 - 388 pàgines
...of principles. [Mcek young men grow up in librarics,] belicving it thcir duty to. aecept the vicws which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given...that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in librarics when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the f"" Imokworm. Ilencc... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 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. . . . One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would bring home the wealth... | |
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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 men in libraries when they wrote these books. 
