The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun ; and, after sunset, Night and her stars. Ever the winds blow ; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and... The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 19de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| William Lee Richardson, Jesse M. Owen - 1922 - 544 pages
...Scholar" we find such stirring and heartening sentences as the following : "Every day, the sun ; and after sunset, Night and her stars. Ever the winds blow ;...is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. . . . Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...importance of the influences upon the mind, is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, Mght and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass...women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar 25 must needs stand wistful and admiring before this great spectacle. He must settle its value in his... | |
| Bliss Perry - 1923 - 248 pages
...the Past — typified by Books — and Action. First, then, Nature. "Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, Night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows." But the scholar must ask what all this means. What is Nature? And then comes the puzzling Emersonian... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...importance of the in- 1 ences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the1 I. fluences sun ; and, after sunset, Night and her stars. Ever the winds blow;...continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. Therein it resembles his own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending, he... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and, after r parting with Madam Smith and her son. My heart seemed...went from New York to Weathersfield, by water, and power returning into itself. Therein it resembles his own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending, he... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature.. Every day, the sun; and,, after sunset, Night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grfiws. Every day, men and women, conversing • — • beholdiijg and beholden. The scholar is he... | |
| Thomas Ernest Rankin, Amos Reno Morris, Melvin Theodor Solve, Carlton Frank Wells - 1928 - 612 pages
...first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of Nature. Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, Night and her stars. Ever the winds blow ;...continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. Therein it resembles his own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending, he... | |
| William Lee Richardson - 1928 - 116 pages
...words used, as in this passage dealing with the influence of nature: "Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, Night and her stars. Ever the winds blow;...What is nature to him? There is never a beginning, is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of the web of God, but always circular power returning... | |
| United States. Office of Education - 1966 - 1002 pages
...first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow;...women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar must needs stand wistful and admiring before this great spectacle. He must settle its value in his... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1971 - 316 pages
...first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun ; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow ;...women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar must needs stand wistful and admiring before this great spectacle. He must settle its value in his... | |
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