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" The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. "
The American Scholar: An Address - Page 34
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 116 pages
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Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 3

Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 318 pages
...any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action." . . . " They (the duties of the scholar) are such as become Man Thinking. They may all be comprised...them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonoured, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed and Herschel, in their glazed observatory, may...
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Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 2

Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 260 pages
...opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action." •. . . " They (the duties of the scholar) are such as become man thinking. They may all be comprised...cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amid appearances. He plies the slow, unhonoured, and unpaid task of observation. Flarostead and Herschel,...
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United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 1

1838 - 540 pages
...education, the orator then proceeds to his duties. "They are such," he says, "aa become manthinking. They may all be comprised in self-trust. The office...to raise, and to guide men, by showing them facts amid appearances. We will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. Then shall man no...
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The Boston Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1838 - 536 pages
...virtue yet in the hoe and spade, for learned as well as unlearned hands." The scholar then is educated " by nature, by books, and by action. It remains to say somewhat of his duties." " They may be all comprised in Self-trust. The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action. I have now spoken of the education of the scholar by...them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonoured, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed and Herschel, in their glazed observatories,...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...for the sake of wider activity, sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action. I have now spoken of the education of the scholar by...them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonoured, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed and Herschel, in their glazed observatories,...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action. I have now spoken of the education of the scholar by...them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonoured, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed and Herschel, in their glazed observatories,...
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Orations, Lectures and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...for the sake of wider activity, sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action. I have now spoken of the education of the scholar by...them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonoured, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed and Herschel, in their glazed observatories,...
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Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action. I have now spoken of the education of the scholar by...nature, by books, and by action. It remains to say somewhatTof his duties. They are such as become Man 'Thinking. They may all be comprised in self-trust....
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action. I have now spoken of the education of the scholar by...the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. Flamstecd and Herschel, in their glazed observatories, may catalogue the stars with the praise of all...
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