 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption,...  Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions - Page 7by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 319 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Augustus Woodbury - 1858 - 252 pages
...were hid, inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette ; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is...transparent words to us, the strangers of another age." Think what an influence books have and exert ! Bad books are mischievous in the extreme, for they excite... | |
 | Augustus Woodbury - 1858 - 280 pages
...were hid, inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette ; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is...transparent words to us, the strangers of another age." Think what an influence books have and exert ! Bad books are mischievous in the extreme, for they excite... | |
 | Augustus Woodbury - 1858 - 276 pages
...were hid, inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette ; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is...transparent words to us, the strangers of another Think what an influence books have and exert ! Bad books are mischievous in the extreme, for they excite... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1899 - 892 pages
...interruptions, fenced by etiquette. But the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friends is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age." A wonderful theme this "Books and Libraries." Too large for him who speaks to you so I have thought... | |
 | Thomas Ballantyne - 1870 - 256 pages
...hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced in by etiquette : but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is...transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. Ailantic Monthly. WHEN there is no recreation or business for thee abroad, thou may'st then have a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 286 pages
...were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette ; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to ns, the strangers of another age. We owe to books those general benefits winch come from high intellectual... | |
 | 1880 - 516 pages
...were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette ; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, thi itrangers of another age. We owe to books those general benefits which come from high intellectual... | |
 | 1923 - 718 pages
...of their learnings and wisdom. . . . The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friends is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age." Literature is the revelation of the innermost soul of a people. The vital test of the character of... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 pages
...were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruptions, fenced by etiquette ; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is...transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.!' — K tu'ii WALDO EMERSON. How can our young people be led to take pleasure in the writings of our... | |
 | 1881 - 552 pages
...contemporaries. In the words of Emerson, " the thought which they did riot uncover to their bosom friend is written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age"; while the men of to-day hold the same position in which their predecessors once stood, they are "hid... | |
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