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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. "
Emerson at Home and Abroad - Page 97
by Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 309 pages
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The Western Messenger, Volume 4

James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1837 - 440 pages
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The Microcosm: Or, Little World of Home, Volumes 1-3

1835 - 616 pages
...start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young mea grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept...young men in libraries when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-wonn. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books,...
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The Boston Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1838 - 536 pages
...becomes noxious. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." " Books are good only to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction...
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 15

1844 - 648 pages
...communication. Nothing can be greater than tí." In an oration to our scholars, he encourages them with : " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." Another and still more transcendental writer, if possible, tells us in his " Sayings :" " A man is...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 15

1844 - 638 pages
...communication. Nothing can bo greater than it." In an oration to our scholars, he encourages them with : 'i Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." Another and still more transcendental writer, if possible, tells us in his " Sayings :" " A man is...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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. This is bad; this is worse than it seems. Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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,...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...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,...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...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...that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libralies, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence,...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 pages
...literature, afraid lest the youth become a bookworm, and not a man thinking. But how well he says : " 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. " Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,...
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