| 1896 - 374 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 bring home the wealth of the Indies, must cany out the wealth of the Indies." l There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When... | |
| 1899 - 730 pages
...must stand on our own feet, we must adapt, we must invent. It must ever be borne in mind that " He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies," and more that whatever is good and strong must be a part of self. Plutarch said a long time ago: "... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 pages
...would say, that it needs a strong, head to bear that. diet. One must be an inventor to read ;*w - **»^ well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home...whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold iallusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1902 - 408 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 Ind1es." What you bring away from the Bible depends to some extent on what you carry to it. — Benjamin... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 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...creative writing./ When the mind is braced by labor and inven-[| tion, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 532 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 bring home trie wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading... | |
| Tuley Francis Huntington - 1904 - 412 pages
...occasion that arises, is far better."1 Emerson had it in mind, when he said that " one must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, ' He that would...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... | |
| George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 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 bring home the wealth of the Indies, must cany out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 564 pages
...printed page. I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that ^Jiet. One must be an invenTor to read well. As the proverb says, "He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies,-must carry out the wealth of the Indies." There is then creative reading as well as creative... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 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...whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold iallusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.... | |
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