 | 1835 - 616 pages
...pure thought that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to (»temporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...own books ; or rather, each generation for the next sueceeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...him,— immortal thoughts. It came to him,—business ; it went from him,—poetry. It was,—dead fact; now, it is quick thought. It can stand, and...mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,—the act of thought,—is instantly transferred to the record. The poet, chanting, was felt... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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, must write its own books; or, rather, F2 each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Hence,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1866 - 298 pages
...can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the coventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write...the act of creation, — the act of thought, — is instantly transferred to the record. The poet, chanting, was felt to be a divine man ; henceforth,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...institutions, that mind is inscribed. 'Books are the best type of the influence of the past, and perhaps wo shall get at the truth, — learn the amount of this...transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to he a divine man : henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...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 bo a divine man : henceforth the chant is divine also. The writer was a just and wise spirit : henceforward... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...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,...not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacrcduess which attaches to the act of creation — the act of thought — is transferred to the record.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 392 pages
...thought, that shall be us efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found,...an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises » grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, the act of thought, is transferred... | |
 | RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883 - 428 pages
...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,...an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises % grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, the act of thought, is transferred... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Biography - 1883 - 658 pages
...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,...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. \ Os Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, the act... | |
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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. 
