| Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 էջ
...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 out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world of value is the active soul, — the soul, free, sovereign, active. This... | |
| 1925 - 666 էջ
...enter the struggle for existence the first time. Says Emerson, "I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite instead of a system. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholars' idle times. When we... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 էջ
...all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to ign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances, master or servant, is then a trifle and The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 էջ
...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 out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 էջ
...to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire I had better never see a book than to be warped by it attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of vain is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this evei man... | |
| Alistair Cooke - 1975 - 34 էջ
...right use of books? . . .they are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.' These words made the listening dons uncomfortable enough to see that Emerson was banished from talking... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 էջ
...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 out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every... | |
| Paula Marantz Cohen - 2001 - 1286 էջ
...meaning, a loss of cortespondence between words and things: "I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system," writes Emerson. "I did not read books the first summer," announces Thoreau in describing his sojourn... | |
| Norman O. Brown - 2023 - 216 էջ
...libraries. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and make a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul." How... | |
| Maurice Wohlgelernter - 1993 - 428 էջ
...is shared by Emerson. In "The American Scholar" he wrote that "I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul."34 Some thirty years after his diary entry,... | |
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