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Miscellanies - Page 77
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 425 pages
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Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 pages
...makes an outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accep^ dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 pages
...makes an outcry, if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who...books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book -learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the...
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The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Ralph Waldo Emerson. John Lothrop Motely

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 pages
...makes an outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who...young men in libraries when they wrote these books. . . . One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would bring home the wealth...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 pages
...makes an outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who...from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principle. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero,...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Man and Teacher

Henry Bellyse Baildon - 1884 - 66 pages
...selfreliance is indispensable. ' Meek young men,' says Emerson, ' grow up in libraries, believing it to be their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given ; forgetting that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were but young men in libraries when they wrote these books.'...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Man and Teacher

Henry Bellyse Baildon - 1884 - 64 pages
...selfreliance is indispensable. ' Meek young men,' says Emerson, ' grow up in libraries, believing it to be their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given; forgetting that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were but young men in libraries when they wrote these books.'...
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American Literature, 1607-1885: The development of American thought

Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 pages
...customs of the preceding age ; one's own view of duty should not be shadowed by other men's views." " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." " Genius looks forward ; the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead ; man hopes,...
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Three Americans and Three Englishmen: Lectures Read Before the Students of ...

Charles Frederick Johnson - 1886 - 268 pages
...this book, stands upon it, and makes an outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built upon it. ... Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...Locke, and Bacon, were only young men in libraries when when they wrote these books." But if Emerson recognized that the form, the presentation, of truth must...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 pages
...makes an outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who...young men in libraries when they wrote these books. Hencej instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence the book -learned class, who value books,...
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American Literature 1607-1885, Volume 1

Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 pages
...customs of the preceding age ; one's own view of duty should not be shadowed by other men's views." " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." " Genius looks forward ; the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead ; man hopes,...
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