 | John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1915 - 462 páginas
...thought, that shall be as efficient, In »H respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own book*" And to these words we might very well add, "each type of people must produce its own literature."... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 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 this...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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 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 this...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... | |
 | 1916 - 766 páginas
...them. There came mockingly to my mind a sentence read several times with high-school classes: "Each age must write its own books; or rather each generation, for the next succeeding." I remembered how heartily we applauded the idea and how modern we felt ourselves in studying the plea... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 páginas
...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,...transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also. The i ..^writer was, a just and wise spirit;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 páginas
...to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age^ it . is fouaoV must write its own books; or rather, each generation...transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer wag a just and wise spirit; henceforward... | |
 | University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) - 1923 - 668 páginas
...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,...own books ; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding."99 »Jour. DC, 114. M Natural History of Intellect: Country Life, 157. 97 Essays I, 269-70.... | |
 | Denton Jaques Snider - 1921 - 398 páginas
...the form of "literature, art, institutions." Great is the Book, but it has a very insidious peril : "the sacredness which attaches to the act of creation...act of thought — is transferred to the record." Hence the letter killeth: the danger of script is prescription. The function of genius is to create:... | |
 | Niels Bøgholm - 1922 - 272 páginas
...forholdet mellem ord og virkelighed taler Emerson fra et helt andet synspunkt i The American Scholar: The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation — the act of thought, is instantly transferred to the record .... the book is perfect .... Instantly the book becomes noxious.... | |
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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... 
