...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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."...