 | Henry Bellyse Baildon - 1884 - 66 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.'... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 pages
...customs of the preceding age ; one's own view of duty should not be shadowed by other men's views." " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." " Genius looks forward ; the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead ; man hopes,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1886 - 268 pages
...this book, stands upon it, and makes an outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built upon it. ... Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...Locke, and Bacon, were only young men in libraries when when they wrote these books." But if Emerson recognized that the form, the presentation, of truth must... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 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. Hencej instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence the book -learned class, who value books,... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 pages
...customs of the preceding age ; one's own view of duty should not be shadowed by other men's views." " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." " Genius looks forward ; the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead ; man hopes,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 232 pages
...manly and independent, slightly assertive, as becomes the spokesman of a literature on its trial. " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...Bacon, were only young men in libraries when they wrote those books." He puts the Old World under contribution; he is full of verbal indebtedness to its philosophers... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 574 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... | |
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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. 
