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. Poems and Essays - Page 117by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 236 lehteFull view - About this book
| 1835 - 616 lehte
...start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young mea grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept...books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-wonn. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such ; not as related to nature and the... | |
| 1838 - 536 lehte
...becomes noxious. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." " Books are good only to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction... | |
| 1844 - 648 lehte
...communication. Nothing can be greater than tí." In an oration to our scholars, he encourages them with : " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." Another and still more transcendental writer, if possible, tells us in his " Sayings :" " A man is... | |
| 1844 - 638 lehte
...communication. Nothing can bo greater than it." In an oration to our scholars, he encourages them with : 'i Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." Another and still more transcendental writer, if possible, tells us in his " Sayings :" " A man is... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 lehte
...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 young men...instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence the book-learned class, who value books, as such ; not ns related to Nature and the human constitution,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 lehte
...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 young men...young men in libraries when they wrote these books. This is bad; this is worse than it seems. Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 lehte
...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 young men...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 - 1849 - 414 lehte
...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 young men...that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libralies, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence,... | |
| 1849 - 448 lehte
...literature, afraid lest the youth become a bookworm, and not a man thinking. But how well he says : " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. " Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? What is... | |
| 1851 - 608 lehte
...through, And my luncheon fast cooling ¡--this never will do. In the words of a living essayist, " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men and libraries when they wrote those books . . . The writer was ajust and wise man. Henceforward it... | |
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