 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 pages
...; without that it is so much loose matter floating in our brain. — /Mcke. One must be an inventor to read well. — As the proverb says, " He that would...must carry out the wealth of the Indies. — There is creative reading as well as creative writing. — When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the... | |
 | Elizabeth Helen Hannahs - 1908 - 232 pages
...transferable to sight. No formal training of the "powers of observation" is possible. APPLICATION STEP.—I. "He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." '' The only things that we commonly see are those which we preperceive." (W. James, "Psychology.")... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...printed page. I only vvould 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 bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies."0 There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind... | |
 | William Watson - 1910 - 264 pages
...bring to it will enable you to find what it brings to you. The proverb has its application here that he that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the 84 Indies. If you wish to receive good from your reading you must cherish the docile spirit. Every... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1910 - 544 pages
...neighborhood, and like the words of great men, without cant. Two proverbs I found lately : one, " He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." The other may serve as foil to this magnificent sentence, "Small pot, soon hot." Then again I found... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...printed page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet. One jtnust jjejm^inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry 20 out the wealth of the Indies." 1 There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 pages
...to take no account at all of any youth who is not an Emerson. He quotes with approval the saying : " He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." He does not take into consideration the many who have not the wealth of the Indies, and the many who... | |
 | Frank Cummins Lockwood - 1913 - 176 pages
...as welcome to me as would a comrade or a brother. One may study with the thought of future travel. "He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." That is, we shall see only what we are prepared to see. Study with the thought of making yourself an... | |
 | Ella Frances Lynch - 1914 - 238 pages
...true here, as elsewhere, that you get out of a book, a sermon, a college course, what you bring to it. "He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies." Only the thinking mind gets new thoughts from the printed page. When the mind is braced with ideas,... | |
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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... 
