 | 1835 - 616 pages
...heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume. The discerning will read in his Plato or Shakspeare, only that least part, — only the authentic utterances of the oracle, — and all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakspeare's. Of course, there... | |
 | 1838 - 536 pages
..."One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading, as well as creative writing." " Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable...their indispensable office, — to teach elements. But thej can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create." The third teacher of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...his Plato or Shakspeare, only that least part,—only the authentic utterances of the oracle ; and all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times...Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,—to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us when they aim, not to drill, but to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year. thentic utterances of the oracle; and all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakspeare's. III. There goes in the world a notion, that the scholar should be a recluse, a valetudinarian,—as... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume. The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare, only that least...there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to'a wise man. History and exact science he must learn by laborious reading. Colleges, in like manner,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...record, perchance, the least part of his volume. The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakespeare, only that least part, — only the authentic utterances...he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakespeare's. Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume. The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare, only that least...part, — only the authentic utterances of the oracle ; and all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakspeare's. Of course there... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...record, perchance, the least part of his volume. The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakespeare, only that least part, — only the authentic utterances...he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakespeare's. Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...record, perchance, the least part of his volume. The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakespeare, only that least part, — only the authentic utterances...he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakespeare's. Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume. The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakspeare, only that least...indispensable to a wise man. History and exact science lie must learn by laborious reading. Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office, —... | |
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Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that, as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part... 
