 | 1921 - 744 pages
...of Third Estate with the world and the soul." Man thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's manuscripts of their readings. But when intervals of darkness come, as come they must, • — then... | |
 | 1925 - 702 pages
...82. 48 Literary Ethics, v. 1, p. 182. 49 The Scholar, vp 87. "Books are for the scholar's idle time. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to spend in other men's transcripts of their reading."50 Though action with a scholar may be subordinate... | |
 | 1883 - 666 pages
...value is the active soul ; the soul free, sovereign, active. Books are for the idle times ; when we can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted by other men's transcripts of their reading ; but, when the intervals come, as come they' must ; when... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 pages
...way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of tlieir readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can road God directly, tho hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. But when tho intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when tho sun is hid, and the stars withdraw... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. "When he can...when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining,—we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray, to guide our steps to the East again,... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1893 - 640 pages
...all things, are holy. Emerson has written : "Man's thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their reading. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid and the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 142 pages
...way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...of darkness come, as come they must, — when the soul seeth not, when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1901 - 392 pages
...his hindhead: man hopes: genius createa. . . . Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour ia too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. . . . " In self-trust all... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 pages
...way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can...of darkness come, as come they must, — when the s\m is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by... | |
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But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the soul seeth not, when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray to guide our steps to the East again, where... 
