 | John Louis Haney - 1923 - 484 pages
...all men obstructed, and as yet unborn. . . . Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he reads God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. In eloquent words Emerson stressed the dignity of true scholarship, as well as the duties of the far-visioned... | |
 | 1925 - 666 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 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...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,... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Amos Reno Morris, Melvin Theodor Solve, Carlton Frank Wells - 1928 - 612 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...we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their way, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear, that we may speak. The Arabian... | |
 | National Association for Women Deans, Administrators & Counselors - 1928 - 880 pages
...resource in which to take refuge, the modern woman's spirit is in danger of becoming hard and calculating. "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... | |
 | Dwijadas Datta - 1930 - 316 pages
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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... 
