 As no airpump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity,...  Poems and Essays - Page 121by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 236 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1835 - 616 lehte
...can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write...efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to (»temporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 lehte
...can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write...it is found, must write its own books; or, rather, F2 each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Hence,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 lehte
...can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write...efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to cotemporaries, or rather, to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 lehte
...can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write...efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to cotemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 lehte
...can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write...efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to cotemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 lehte
...can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable, from his book, or write...not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the act of thought, — is transferred to the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 lehte
...can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the coventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write...efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to cotemporaries, or rather, to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 lehte
...can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write...efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to t cotemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, < must write its own books ; or... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 lehte
...by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither •can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local/ the perishable from his book, or write...efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to cotemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 lehte
...can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither cau any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write...not. fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation — the act of thought — is transferred to the record.... | |
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