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" The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. "
Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 96
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 383 pages
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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...the scholar by — * nature, by books, and by action. It remains to say somewhat of his duties. 25 They are such as become Man Thinking. They may all...comprised in self-trust. The office of the scholar 1 Events. 2 Ungifted, uncultured. ESSAYS OF EMERSON — 4 is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by...
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...of the scholar by 30 nature, by books, and by action. It remains to say somewhat of his duties. 30. They are such as become Man Thinking. They may all...the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed0 and Herschel," in their glazed observatories, may catalogue the stars with 5 the praise...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...perceptions'? (Page 33, 1. 3.) 1 8. Did Emerson himself fulfill the true functions of a scholar — to cheer, to raise, and to guide men, by showing them facts amidst appearances? Do you think of any other duties of the scholar? (Page 35, 1- 2.) 19. Compare the scholar's sacrifices...
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The World's Progress ...

Delphian Society, Chicago - 1913 - 614 pages
...spoken of the education of the scholar by nature, by books, and by action. It remains to say somewhat of his duties. They are such as become Man Thinking....unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed and Herschcl, in their glazed observatories, may catalogue the stars with the praise of all men, and the...
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Essays for College Men: 2d Series

Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 pages
...They may all be comprised in selPffust. The office of the scholar is to <«Ji££r^..to-raisc,-and-±o guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances....unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed 1 and Herschel, in their glazed observatories, may catalogue the stars with the praise of all men,...
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Representative Phi Beta Kappa Orations

Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 524 pages
...spoken of the education of the scholar by nature, by books, and by action. It remains to say somewhat of his duties. They are such as become Man Thinking. They may all be comprised in self -trust. The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts...
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Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Volume 25; Volume 32

Modern Language Association of America - 1917 - 890 pages
...all ages have called the Muse, or by some kindred name, come in to keep us warm and true." If then the " office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise,...guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances," how admirably is he adapted to the great work of harmonizing the strident notes that grate on the sensitive...
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Prejudices Second Series

H.L. Mencken - 1920 - 280 pages
...principles." And then, turning to the way out: "The office of the scholar (ie, of Whitman's 'literatus') is to cheer, to raise and to guide men by showing them facts amid appearances." Whitman himself, a full generation later, found that office still unfilled. "Our...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...tlje education of the scholar by A- natute, by books, and by action. It remains to say somewhat of his duties. They are such as become Man Thinking. They may all be comprised in self-trust. iThe office of the scholar is to cheej, to raise, and. to guide-men by showing them facts amidst appearancesj...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...education of the scholar by nature, by books, and by acjion. It remains to say somewhat of his"3uties. They are such as become Man Thinking. They may all be comprised in self-trust. The .officeof the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide~men tryshowing them facts amidst appearances....
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