| 1850 - 744 pages
...built up a shapely mansion, and the most of whose wisdom and wit might be printed in inverted commas. " Every book is a quotation ; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries ; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors — and this grasping inventor... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 270 pages
...praising Plato, it seems we are praising quotations from Solon, and Sophron, and Philolaus, Be it so. Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, mines, and stone quarries : and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors : and this grasping... | |
| Thomas Purnell - Literature - 1867 - 316 pages
...different definition. Mr. Emerson supposes a great man to be " one who has " a large stomach," — " one of great affinities, who " takes up into himself all arts, sciences — all know" ables— as his food; who can spare nothing; who " can dispose of everything." Such a man we... | |
| Theology - 1868 - 396 pages
...distinguished for earnestness and sincerity. Waldo Emerson says, " A great man is one who has a large stomach ; one of great affinities, who takes up into himself all arts, sciences, all knowables as his food, who can spare nothing, who can dispose of everything." Such a man we confess never yet to have known... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...only of his school. Plato, too, like every great man, consumed his own times. What is a great man, but one of great affinities, who takes up into himself all arts, sciences, all knowables, as his food 1 He can spare nothing; he can dispose of everything. What is not good for virtue, is good for knowledge.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...only of his school. Plato, too, like every great man, consumed his own times. What is a great man, but one of great affinities, who takes up into himself all arts, sciences, all knowables, as his food 1 He can spare nothing ; he can dispose of everything. What is not good for virtue, is good for knowledge.... | |
| Jeremiah Griswold - Fire insurance - 1872 - 850 pages
...the field and in the office. In its preparation — holding with Mr. Emerson, when he says : — " Every book is a quotation ; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines aud stone-quarries ; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors," especial effort has been... | |
| William Mathews - 1876 - 322 pages
...scorn, and declared that it was an author's duty to use all that was suggested to him from any quarter. "What is a great man," asks Emerson, " but one of...mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors." There are some minds, and those, too, really productive, .that require the... | |
| Association for the Advancement of Women - Women - 1877 - 404 pages
...transmitted to others ; and by constant repetition became instincts and dispositions. Emerson says, " Every book is a quotation, and every house is a quotation, out of mines, forests and stone quarries ; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors." We see in... | |
| Lexington (Va.) - 1880 - 406 pages
...we cherish so fondly, would go for nothing. The author quotes from Emerson : " What is a great man but one of great affinities, who takes up into himself...is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out ot all forests and mines and stone quarries ; and every irnn is a quotation from all his ancestors."... | |
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