Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. The American Scholar: An Address - Page 16by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 116 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1835 - 616 pages
...sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emcndators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. This is bad ; this...used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use 1 What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence the book-learned class, who value books, as such ; not ns related to Nature and the human constitution, but...but to inspire. I had better never see a book than lo be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...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,...warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, aud made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the -emendatojaT.the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. vWhat is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the cmendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. Books arc the best of things, well used ; abused, among the...is the one end, which ' • all means go to effect 1 They are for nothing but to inspire, v/ I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,...What is the one end, which all means go to effect 1 They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all decrees. Books are the best of things, well nsen ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to ('fleet? They are for nothing but. to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 236 pages
...can carry beyond the grave is wisdom." " Books are the best of things, well used," says Emerson ; " abused among the worst. What is the right use ? What...to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire." " In any choice of books," urges James Russell Lowell, " always remember what Milton said, that 'a... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 104 pages
...you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom." " Books are the best of things, well used," says Emerson; "abused among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go1 to. effect? They are for nothing but to inspire." " In any choice of books," urges James Russell... | |
| Edmund J. Baillie - 1882 - 76 pages
...ESSAYS," amid the wonderful collection of polished fragments and sparkling gems, we find the precept " Books are the best of things well used ; abused, among the worst." This axiom is fact in essence. It is strange to think of a period when there were no books, when the... | |
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