 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...is the right use ? What is the one end, which 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 lira do a satellite instead of a system. The one 8 thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...? What is the one end, which ' • all means go to effect 1 They are for nothing but to inspire, v/ I had better never see a book, than to be warped by...of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is_the pptive soul This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within him, although, in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to effect 1 They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be...thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed,... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - Education - 1876 - 900 pages
...realize the force and beauty of that fine sentiment of Emerson : " I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.'' Montaigne strongly condemned the prevalent mode of teac faing by authority. " I^et the tutor," says... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to ('fleet? They are for nothing but. to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction eban out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...is "the right use ? What is the one end, winch all means go to effect? They_are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be...thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed,... | |
 | Education - 1921 - 744 pages
...And great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page." "I had better never see a book, than to be warped...thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within himself, although, in almost all men,... | |
 | Education - 1925 - 702 pages
...books and examination papers when they enter the struggle for existence the first time. Says Emerson, "I had better never see a book than to be warped by...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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Theology - 1865 - 324 pages
...is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be...thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed,... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...an ample shield. Can take in all, and verge enough for more. a. DHÏDEN — Sebastian. Act I. Sc. 1. f fame. Satire V. Line 108. SNOW. Stand here by my side a ii. EMEBSON — The American Scholar. Gravity is the ballast of the soul, Which keeps the mind steady.... | |
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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. 
