 Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean...  American Literature - Page 157by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1901 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Mathews - 1903 - 442 pages
...not be adopted too implicitly. What says the strenuous advocate of self-trust we have just quoted ? " They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and be made a satellite instead of a system."... | |
 | Elisabeth Luther Cary - 1904 - 394 pages
...practised, he upheld it with confidence as the only way in which a " scholar " profitably could read. " Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among...go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. 1 had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 564 pages
...the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. Books are Jthe best of_ things^ _w.eJL.u.se.d.;_ .abused, among~the worst. "What is the right use ? What is the one end,...to effect ? They~ are for nothing but to inspire. I had_better_never see a" book, than to be warjjed by its attractiplTclea.n out of my own brbit~and made... | |
 | Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - 1904 - 346 pages
...second declaration of independence. In what ways and for what reasons do you consider this true? 3. "Books are the best of things well used, abused, among the worst. - - * They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction... | |
 | Richard Wilson - 1905 - 224 pages
...Ought he to be a student of psychology ? • — English teaching in the primary school • - 192-205 "BOOKS are the best of things, well used; abused,...What is the one end, which all means go to effect t They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1905 - 426 pages
...affection to die well, than to live wantonly." " Books are the best of things, well used," says Emerson; " abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? What...to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire." In a word, every reader may well bear upon his heart, as his guide toward right reading, that motto... | |
 | C. E. Heisch - 1905 - 148 pages
...their mental stimulus upon books, which are more or less accessible to all. "Books," says Emerson, "are the best of things, well used : abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? They are for nothing but to inspire. . . . The one thing in the world of value is the active soul."... | |
 | Alfred Marshall Hitchcock - 1906 - 274 pages
...economy. 2. One goes to the right the other to the left both are wrong but in different directions. 3. Books are the best of things well used abused among the worst. 4. He always went into the darkest and deepest recesses that is he took up the part which no one had... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...men in libraries when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of man thinking, we have the bookworm. " Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,...go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. TL had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...and the soul. Hence the restorers of readings, the emendators,1 the bibliomaniacs- of all degrees. Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,...which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but 20 to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own... | |
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