 | Charles William Eliot - 1906 - 144 páginas
...the educational experiences of later generations. I can cite but two of them. He taught that each age must write its own books ; " or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." How true that is in our own day when eighty thousand new books come from the press of the civilized... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 páginas
...to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, 15 must write its own books ; or rather, each generation...attaches to the act of creation, the act of thought, 20 is transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1908 - 506 páginas
...institutions, that mind is inscribed. Books are the best type of the influence of the past, and perhaps we shall get at the truth, — • learn the amount of...period will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave rnischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the act of thought, — ,is instantly... | |
 | 1908 - 446 páginas
...in proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing. Each age, it is found, must write its own books ;...transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man ; henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit ; henceforth... | |
 | David Graham - 1908 - 410 páginas
...Miscellaneous Essays, vol. iv. p. 111. Emerson. — Emerson writes on this subject with great insight : " The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,...transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward... | |
 | 1909 - 540 páginas
...efficient in all respects to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Eack age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather,...transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 páginas
...pure thought that shall be as efficient in all respects to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation—the act of thought—is transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 páginas
...thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, 01 rather, to the second age. Each age, it is found,...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. 5 13. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, the... | |
 | 1911 - 448 páginas
...in proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing. Each age, it is found, must write its own books ;...transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man ; henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit ; henceforth... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 páginas
...beginning of that period were extant in the world. — LORD MACAULAY. Lord Bacon. A SORT OF THIRD ESTATE Each age, it is found, must write its own books ;...transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward... | |
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,— the act of... 
