 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 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...believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero,1 which Locke,2 1 Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman author, orator, and statesman. He... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...be is oft led by the nose with gold. — Shakespeare. Meek young men grow up in libraries, beHeving it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which...young men in libraries when they wrote these books. — Emerson. Authority, though it err like others, hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, that skins... | |
 | 1896 - 374 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...believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero,1 which Locke,2 1 Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman author, orator, and statesman. He... | |
 | George A. Richardson - 1896 - 472 pages
...it their duty to accept views which Cicero, Locke, Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, Bacon, were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. . . . I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attractions clear out of my own orbit... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 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 - 1897 - 264 pages
...by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, hot from their own sight of principles. Meek young men...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,... | |
 | John Beattie Crozier - 1898 - 626 pages
...they are our gods.' Or lastly, this on self-reliance, which was a great stimulus to me personally, ' Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books.' Nowhere indeed, will you find greater penetration and profundity, or greater refinement and delicacy... | |
 | John Beattie Crozier - 1898 - 626 pages
...they are our gods.' Or lastly, this on self-reliance, which was a great stimulus to me personally, ' Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books.' Nowhere indeed, will you find greater penetration and profundity, or greater refinement and delicacy... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 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...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 - 1902 - 206 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...duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, \vhich Bacon, have given ; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries... | |
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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. 
