 CONSIDER what you have in the smallest chosen library. 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.  London Society - Page 15edited by - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Augustus Woodbury - 1858 - 252 pages
...so abundant as are books. " Consider/' says Emerson, "what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civilized countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and... | |
 | Augustus Woodbury - 1858 - 276 pages
...so abundant as are books. " Consider," says Emerson, "what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civilized countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1899 - 892 pages
...features of our civilization today. Said Emerson : "Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civilized countries in thousands of years have set in best order the results of their learning and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 334 pages
...exclusion from them to accuse his way of living. Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could...impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the though c which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 284 pages
...exclusion from them to accuse his way of living. Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil count.-ies, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The... | |
 | Thomas Ballantyne - 1870 - 256 pages
...collection of books. CAKLYLB'S Lectures on Heroes. CONSIDER what you have in the smallest library : a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civilised countries in a thousand years have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.... | |
 | 1923 - 718 pages
..."Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library," suggests Emerson, "A company of the wisest and the wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil...years, have set in best order the results of their learnings and wisdom. . . . The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friends is here written... | |
 | 1880 - 516 pages
...exclusion from them to accuse his way of living. Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 pages
...Uoughton & CompanyINTRODUCTION TO THE LEAFLETS. V " Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could...were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruptions, fenced by etiquette ; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend... | |
 | Theodore Thornton Munger - 1882 - 260 pages
...THE CATALOGUE OF HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND CO. (~* ONSIDER what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could...were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruptions, fenced by etiquette ; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend... | |
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