 | 1835 - 616 pages
...readings, the emcndators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. This is bad ; this is worse than it seems. Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use 1 What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better... | |
 | American literature - 1838 - 536 pages
...Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books." " Books are good only to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system." " The soul active... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. This is bad; this is worse than it seems. Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among...had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. This is bad; this is worse than it seems. Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,...but to inspire. I had better never see a book than lo be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1849 - 408 pages
...world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,...better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 448 pages
...in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. " Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,...better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy of nature - 1856 - 402 pages
...world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,...better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the... | |
 | Education - 1898 - 404 pages
...UPERIN^^NDBNCY NUMBBR. WISCONSIN _ Journal of Education • OOKS are the best of things, well used; abused, What is the right use? What is the one end which all...had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the... | |
 | Theodore Parker - American literature - 1864 - 626 pages
...in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of man thinking, we have the bookworm. " Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,...better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, aud made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...soul. Hence, VOL. II. N the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. Books are the best of things, well used ; abused,...better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the... | |
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Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? What is the one end which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean... 
