The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. Four American Leaders - Página 96por Charles William Eliot - 1906 - 124 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1835 - 616 páginas
...action, it is genius ; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college,...any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 páginas
...action, it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favourite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college,...any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, —let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward, and not forward;... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 páginas
...action, it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favourite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college,...any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,—let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward, and not forward;... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 páginas
...action, it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college,...any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward.... | |
| 1849 - 448 páginas
...obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul active sees absolute truth ; and utters truth, or creates. . . The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 páginas
...action, it is genius ; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college,...any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward.... | |
| 1898 - 416 páginas
...action it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college,...any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 páginas
...it is genius ; not the privilege of here and there a favourite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college,...any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward, and not forward... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 páginas
...it is genius ; not the privilege of here and there a favourite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college,...any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 páginas
...of here and there a favorite, but the Bound estate of every man. In its essence, it is orogressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This *is good, <say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward.... | |
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