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 - Seite 1441912Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 312 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1934 - 708 Seiten
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