 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...thought, that shall be as efficicnt, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporarics, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...own books; or rather, each generation for the next suecceding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischicf. The... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 pages
...sentence or two may serve to give an impression of the epigrammatic wisdom of his counsel. " Each age must write its own books, or, rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." When a book has gained a certain hold on the mind, it is liable to become an object of idolatrous regard.... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1886 - 268 pages
...as persuasively as Emerson the contemporary did to the nineteenth. Emerson himself says, " Each age must write its own books, or rather each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not suit this," and further, " When a book has gained a certain hold on the mind, it is liable to become... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 pages
...sentence or two may serve to give an impression of the epigrammatic wisdom of his counsel. "Each age must write its own books, or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." When a book has gained a certain hold on the mind, it is liable to become an object of idolatrous regard.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
...sentence or two may serve to give an impression of the epigrammatic wisdom of his counsel. "Each age must write its own books, or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." When a book has gained a certain hold on the mind, it is liable to become an object of idolatrous regard.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...sentence or two may serve to give an impression of the epigrammatic wisdom of his counsel. "Each age must write its own books, or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not lit this." When a book has gained a certain hold on the mind, it is liable to become an object of idolatrous... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacred* ness which attaches to the act of creation, the act of thought, is transferred to the record.... | |
 | Clement King Shorter - 1897 - 244 pages
...afforded me of gathering up a few impressions of pleasant reading hours. " Every age," says Emerson, " must write its own books ; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." It is true, of course, and as a result the popular favourite of to-day is well-nigh forgotten to-morrow.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 142 pages
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...attaches to the act of creation, the act of thought, is instantly transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man ; henceforth the... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 pages
...proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing. Or, I might say, it depends on how far the process had...hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which '5932 5933 attaches to the act of creation, — the act of thought, — Is transferred to the record.... | |
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. 
