 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...with some past utterance of genius. This is good, sav they,—let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 1044 pages
...Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books." " Genius looks fonvard ; the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead ; man hopes, genius creates." " Man thinking " was Emerson's definition of the scholar, and by this he meant the whole man, not the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his ; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward arid not forward. But genius looks forward : the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead:4... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1893 - 1028 pages
...forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only 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^-V genius creates." "Man thinking " was Emerson's definition of the scholar, and by this he meant... | |
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his ; — 1 Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher and statesman.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his ; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...forward : the eyes of man are set in his forehead, Dot in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his ; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1901 - 390 pages
...system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. . . . In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...forehead, not in his hindhead : man hopes: genius creates. . . . Man Thinking must not be subdued by hia instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times.... | |
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The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward; the eyes of... 
