 ... highly serve us when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and by the concentrated fires set the hearts of their youth on flame. Thought and knowledge are natures in...  Orations from Homer to William McKinley - Page 5936edited by - 1902Full view - About this book
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...on flame. Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold,...public importance whilst they grow richer every year. MY BIRD. A BUGLE on the Hudson, sent Its mountain music far and free, O'er hill, and stream, and monument,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 264 pages
...mind of the past, and action in life. He concludes with a consideration of the duty of the scholar. " There goes in the world a notion that the scholar...valetudinarian, as unfit for any handiwork or public labour as a penknife for an axe. The so-called * practical men' sneer at speculative men as if, because... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 318 pages
...mind of the past; and action in life. He concludes with a consideration of the duty of the scholar. " There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be a recluse, a valetudinarian,—as unfit for any handiwork or public labour as a penknife for an axe. The so-called... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...on flame. Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold,...a notion, that the scholar should be a recluse, a valetudinarian,—as unfit for any handiwork or public labour, as a penknife for an axe. The so-called... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...on flame. Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold,...public importance, whilst they grow richer every year. thentic utterances of the oracle; and all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...on flame. Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold,...public importance, whilst they grow richer every year. 8* III. There goes in the world a notion, that the scholar should be a recluse, a valetudinarian, —... | |
 | 1898 - 404 pages
...on flame. Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretensions avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold,...public importance, whilst they grow richer every year. — Emerson, in 1837. Vol. XXVIII. MADISON, WIS., JANUAEY, 1898. t üh* " — ч"1^^ Books anb IReabino,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...on flame. Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold,...valetudinarian, — as unfit for any handiwork or public labour, as a penknife for an axe. The so-called " practical men" sneer at speculative men, as if, because... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...on flame. Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold,...valetudinarian/ — as unfit for any handiwork or public labour, as a penknife for an axe. The so-called " practical men" sneer at speculative men, as if, because... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year. 8* III. There goes in the world a notion, that the scholar should be a recluse, a valetudina-, rian, — as unfit for any handiwork or public labor, as a penknife for an axe. The so-called... | |
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