 | James Cloyd Bowman, Louis Ignatius Bredvold, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick - 1915 - 518 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...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... | |
 | Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 526 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 - 1971 - 316 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,... | |
 | Alistair Cooke - 1975 - 34 pàgines
...over-influence. . .the English dramatic poets have Shakespearized now for two hundred years.' So — ' meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries who wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence the booklearned... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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,... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 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... | |
 | Robert F. Sayre - 1994 - 750 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,... | |
 | Pascal Covici - 1997 - 252 pàgines
...as embodied in books, in libraries. "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe" (79). "Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books" (67). "Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds" (78). Note the rapidity... | |
 | Celia Hales-Mabry - 1997 - 252 pàgines
...The trend of today is not very different from the 1800s when Ralph Waldo Emerson made this comment: Meek young men 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... | |
 | Joan W. Goodwin - 1998 - 436 pàgines
...own sight of principles." Mentioning favorite authorities of the orthodox school, Emerson continued, "Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." Coming out of the libraries, Emerson's new scholars "will walk on our own feet; we will work with our... | |
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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. 
