 | John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 pages
...to take no account at all of any youth who is not an Emerson. He quotes with approval the saying : " He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." He does not take into consideration the many who have not the wealth... | |
 | George Hamlin Fitch - 1913 - 304 pages
...OF POWER" "THE CRITIC IN THE ORIENT" As the Spanish proverb says: tl He -who 'would bring home the t wealth of the Indies must carry the -wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge -with him if he -would bring home knowledge— Bovweirs Life... | |
 | George Hamlin Fitch - 1913 - 304 pages
...CRITIC IN THE ORIENT" As the Spanish pro-verb says: "He iv ho 'would bring home tht .wealth of tht Indies must carry the .wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge .with him if he would bring home knowledge — Bos-weir s Life... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1971 - 316 pages
...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 Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading, as well as creative writing. When the... | |
 | Thomas Andrew Bailey - 1982 - 244 pages
...something about the history of the country he is visiting; as the Spanish proverb advises, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." And Thomas Fuller wrote in 1732, "If an ass goes traveling, he'll not come home a horse." The dangers... | |
 | Susan Howe - 1985 - 146 pages
...Novelists," pp. 322-325) Emerson said the American scholar "must be an inventor to read well. . . . He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." Emily Dickinson across the ocean from George Eliot and Elizabeth Barrett... | |
 | Djelal Kadir - 1986 - 189 pages
...as proclaimed in "The American Scholar": "One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.' There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the... | |
 | Ihab Hassan - 1990 - 256 pages
...transformation. The phenomenon is all too familiar, prompting Dr. Johnson to cite a Spanish proverb: "He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him"; and prompting Emerson to remark: "Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us... | |
 | Mary Loeffelholz - 1991 - 196 pages
...1989), 93. My Father's Business: Errands into Nature and Tales of the Caskets As the proverb says, "He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. —Emerson,... | |
 | Kathy Borrus - 1999 - 308 pages
...Rosenthal, executive director C-naptel tweIve GETTING IT HOME As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. — Samuel Johnson... | |
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He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies. 
