 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. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean...  Emerson: And Other Essays - Page 8by John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...the emenda30 tors, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. This is bad; this is worse than it seems. 15. Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,...all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to b. inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit,... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1911 - 408 pages
...from Emerson's oration on "The American Scholar," delivered at Cambridge, Mass., on August 31, 1837: Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among...go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit and made... | |
 | 1911 - 448 pages
...and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings — the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,...go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit and made... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 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, among the worst. — RW EMERSON. The American Scholar. OLD AND NEW BOOKS OLD books, as you well know, are books of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...he tells us, is in placing too much faith in books. "Instead of Man Thinking we have the bookworm. Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst." Action, though subordinate to the other influences, still is an essential factor in education. "It... | |
 | Delphian Society, Chicago - 1913 - 614 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, among...go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 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,...go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made... | |
 | Sarah Emma Simons - 1915 - 492 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, among...go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made... | |
 | Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 526 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, among...go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made... | |
 | 1952 - 1134 pages
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