 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 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 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... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 pàgines
...mere book-learning he attaches scarcely any importance. Meek young men [he contemptuously observes] grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept...Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote those books. Books are for nothing but to inspire. It is absurd to make fetishes out of the literature... | |
 | Ira Woods Howerth - 1912 - 308 pàgines
...print, and to them the library is the only source of knowledge. " Meek young men," says Emerson, " grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept...which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given ; forgetting that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books."... | |
 | Ira Woods Howerth - 1912 - 272 pàgines
...believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given ; forgetting that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books." 1 The power to think, then, should be consciously encouraged in the schools. If it is not, it is not... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1913 - 264 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." — (Emerson: The American Scholar.) " It was past noon of a day brightened with the clear sunlight... | |
 | Delphian Society, Chicago - 1913 - 614 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 their duty to accept the views from Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1914 - 528 pàgines
..."to believe and take for granted." * This should not be, nor can it be if we remember what we are. "Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." 10 When we sincerely find, therefore, that we cannot agree with the Past, then, says Emerson, we must... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1914 - 506 pàgines
...''to believe and take for granted."* This should not be, nor can it be if we remember what we are. "Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it...only young men in libraries when they wrote these books."1' When we sincerely find, therefore, that we cannot agree with the Past, then, says Emerson,... | |
 | Sarah Emma Simons - 1915 - 492 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,... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 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 ..Jwive the bookworm. Hence the book-learned class, who value books,... | |
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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. 
