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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 21
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pages
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Poems and Essays

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...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...
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My Inner Life: Being a Chapter in Personal Evolution and Autobiography

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 their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given ; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young...
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My Inner Life: Being a Chapter in Personal Evolution and Autobiography

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 their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given ; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young...
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Complete Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 pages
...so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be. But none is quite perfect. As no airpump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither...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...
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The American Scholar: An Address

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 140 pages
...tyrant. We sought a brother, and lo, a governor. The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, always slow to open to the incursions of Reason, having once...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...
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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...open to the incursions of Reason, having once so opened, having once received this book, stands jupon it, and makes an outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges...believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, \vhich Bacon, have given ; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young...
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 14

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 pages
...outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Han Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong,...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...
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Investigations of the Department of Psychology and Education of ..., Volumes 1-3

University of Colorado. Department of Psychology and Education - 1902 - 588 pages
...could be spared without serious detriment to the progress of humanity. "Meek young men," says Emerson, "grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, and Bacon have given; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 pages
...so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be. But none is quite perfect. As no air-pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither...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...
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Nature, Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 530 pages
...arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, the act of'thought, is transferred to the record. The poet chanting was...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...
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