Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid and the stars... Orations, Lectures and Essays - Seite 88von Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 290 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 Seiten
...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...of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by... | |
| George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 Seiten
...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...of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by... | |
| Norman Foerster, William Whatley Pierson, William Whatley Pierson (Jr.) - 1917 - 344 Seiten
...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...of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their... | |
| Calixto Oyuela - 1920 - 768 Seiten
...mueve. Te inspire siempre, y sea La irradiación suprema de tu gloria ! 1910. A FRAY LUIS DE LEÓN But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must when the sun ¡s hid and the stars wlih Iraw their shining, we rep«ir to the lamps which vtere kindted by their... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 Seiten
...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...intervals of darkness come, as come they must, when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by... | |
| Denton Jaques Snider - 1921 - 398 Seiten
...create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his." Use your own creative moments creatively; when you "can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts." A peep we may deem this into Emerson's sanctum where he seizes first his Diary to transcribe God directly.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 Seiten
...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 read God directly, the hour is to« precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of... | |
| John Louis Haney - 1923 - 484 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 398 Seiten
...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...of darkness come, as come they must, — when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their... | |
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