I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named, and all good books, in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable, — any real insight or broad human sentiment. Educational Review - Página 1441912Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 312 páginas
...translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse. I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named,...translatable, — any real insight or broad human sentiment. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 316 páginas
...translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature •what railroads have done for internal intercourse. I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named,...translatable, — any real insight or broad human sentiment. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 388 páginas
...translations of Bonn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse. I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named,...translatable, — any real insight or broad human sentiment. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 332 páginas
...have done for literature what railroads hare done for internal intercourse. I do not hesitate to vead all the books I have named, and all good books, in...translatable, — any real insight or broad human sentiment. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable... | |
| 1870 - 972 páginas
...present form threatens to condemn it. " What is really best in any book," says Ralph Waldo Emerson, "is translatable — any real insight or broad human...should as soon think of swimming across Charles River j when I wish to go to Boston as of reading all my books in originals when I have them render! ed for... | |
| Frederick William Ricord - 1879 - 230 páginas
...authority throughout the world of letters : Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay on " Books," says : " What is really best in any book is translatable, — any real insight or broad sentiment. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and... | |
| 1880 - 444 páginas
...translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse. I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named,...translatable, — any real insight or broad human sentiment. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 512 páginas
...translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse. I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named,...translatable, — any real insight or broad human sentiment. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable... | |
| 1880 - 516 páginas
...translations of Bonn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse. I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named,...is really best in any book is translatable, — any I • real insight or broad human sentiment. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 104 páginas
...translation s of Bonn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse. I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named,...translatable— any real insight or broad human sentiment. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable... | |
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