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 | 1835 - 616 pages
...information than by the printed page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says,...well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...information than by the printed page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head te bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would hriiig home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is, then, creative... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...information than by the printed page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says,...well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...information than by the printed page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says,...well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 410 pages
...information than by the printed page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home the wealth of the ladies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading as well as creative... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 794 pages
...the many having no affinity for it. Emerson somewhere uses the proverb, " He that would bring back the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies ; " and will not this admit of application to Bible students ? Does not the selfish man bring away... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1860 - 436 pages
...I said; — yet there is room for a gloss or commentary on what you say. " He who would bring back the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." What you bring away from the Bible depends to some extent on what you carry to it. — Benjamin Franklin... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...information than by the printed page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring homo the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...information than by the printed page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says,...the wealth of the Indies." ( There is then creative readingja§_well_jj,s_ja:cativc grj&ag. < When the mind is braced by .labor and invention, the page... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...information than by the printed page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says,...well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every... | |
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