 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 640 pages
...I said ; — yet there is room for a gloss or commentary on what you say. " He who would bring back the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." What you bring away from the Bible depends to some extent on what you carry to it. — Benjamin Franklin... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 328 pages
...printed page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be au inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would...creative reading as well as creative writing. When tbe mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...printed page. I only would say that it nceds a strong head to bear that ' dict. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home the wealth of the_Indics, must earry out the wealth of the Indics." /[There is then ereative reading as well as ereative... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 270 pages
...I said ; — yet there is room for a gloss or commentary on what you say. " He who would bring back the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." What you bring away from the Bible depends to some extent on what you carry to it. — Benjamin Franklin!... | |
 | 1883 - 666 pages
...get nae ither where." After large experience, active thought, and a stirrirg life, there is crealive reading as well as creative writing ; when the mind is braced by labour aud invention, the pi^e of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold illustration.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 pages
...printed page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, "He that would...well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labour and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 pages
...and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. . . . One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would...the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies.' . . . When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...that diet. Qqo, mi^r 1^ an inventor to roiul well As the proverb says, " He • that would bring homo the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There isjhon creative rending as well a rriting. When the mind is braced by labour and invention, the page... | |
 | 1886 - 90 pages
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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and die sense of our author is... 
