Thought is the property of him who can entertain it ; and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts ; but, as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. Land Policy Review - Página 10por United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics - 1938Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 páginas
...how it wandereth free Through the wildering maze of Eternity ! (Henry Smith. Thought is the propsrty of him who can entertain it ; and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts ; but as soon as we have learned what to do... | |
| James Locke Batchelder - 1884 - 402 páginas
...2,373 by him, on the foundation laid by his predecessors ; and 1,899 were entirely his own." . . . Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. ... As soon as we have learned what to do with borrowed thoughts, they become our own. In the composition... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 páginas
...illustrating Moliere's principle, that he recovered his property wherever he found it; and Emerson's, ' Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. 1 -All that they had read, as well as all that they had seen, the results of reading, experience, and... | |
| James Henry Potts - 1889 - 806 páginas
...much as previously had entered it. In either case the thought may be his own, for, as Emerson says, " Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it." GENIUS. A French philosopher has remarked that " common sense is the genins of humanity." Such is not... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 páginas
...Talk. Thought. Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom. 5377 Emerson : Conduct of Life. Fate. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and Of him who can adequately place it. 6378 Emerson : Representative Men. Shakespeare. In solitude all great thoughts are born. 5379 Moses... | |
| 1889 - 660 páginas
...capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it ; and of him who can adequately place it." It may be that Shakespeare has done most to establish this rule ; but who believes he wrote in view... | |
| 1889 - 934 páginas
...is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is theproperty of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as Boon as we have learned what to do... | |
| Richard S. Peale - 1890 - 548 páginas
...herself, and is destroyed by thought. Churchill. The dome of thought, the palace of the soul. Byron. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. Emrrson. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces... | |
| John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 páginas
...as are in the institntion wish to get ont, and snch as are ont wish to get in ? 1 Montaigne. Thonght is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adeqnately place it. Shaketpeare. 1 See Davies, page 178. The hearing ear is always fonnd close to... | |
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