 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 394 pages
...thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek...instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence the book - learned class, who value books, as such ; not as related to nature and the human constitution,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 674 pages
...thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek...instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence the book - learned class, who value books, as such ; not as related to nature and the human constitution,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 394 pages
...thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek...instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence the book -learned class, who value books, as such ; not as related to nature and the human constitution,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 328 pages
...thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek...books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bo/ok. worm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value bookw as such; not as related to nature and the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 pages
...thinkers, not by Man Thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accep^ dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek...young men in libraries when they wrote these books. V L-HenceNJinstead of_ Man Thinking, we have the .bookworm. Hence the book - learned class, who value... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 344 pages
...liberated himself from all authorities. In his first lecture at Harvard University (1837) he said: "Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." In this spirit he gathered up the literature of the past into himself, but it was transmuted into his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...of principles. [Mcek young men grow up in librarics,] belicving it thcir duty to. aecept the vicws which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given...that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in librarics when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the f"" Imokworm. Ilencc... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 pages
...thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek...of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book -learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 pages
...thinkers, not by Man thinking ; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek...young men in libraries when they wrote these books. . . . One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, 'He that would bring home the wealth... | |
 | Henry Bellyse Baildon - 1884 - 64 pages
...selfreliance is indispensable. ' Meek young men,' says Emerson, ' grow up in libraries, believing it to be their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given; forgetting that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were but young men in libraries when they wrote these books.'... | |
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given ; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. 
