 We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties lean, and follow the Past and the Distant.  Essays and English Traits - Página 84por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 493 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 páginas
...is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are on, speaking of wisdom or virtue: Length of days is in her right traveling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are garnished with foreign... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1162 páginas
...are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation hut the traveling of the mind? Oui ?o houses are built with foreign taste: our shelves are garnished with foreign ornamcnts; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties lean, and follow the Past and the Distarn. The soul... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1927 - 840 páginas
...a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action. . . . We imitate. . . . Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves...with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean on and follow the Past and the Distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have... | |
 | 1937 - 898 páginas
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