 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under...  Studies in Literature and Style - Page 279by Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 297 pagesFull view - About this book
 | University of Colorado. Department of Psychology and Education - 1903 - 564 pages
...wisdom or the economy in taking the trouble to work at the originals. "I should as soon think," he says, "of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in the originals when I have them rendered for me In my mother-tongue." (8) He spoke of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 564 pages
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. For history there... | |
 | 1895 - 526 pages
...times through translations. Though he did not say it, he evidently believed in Emerson's saying, " I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all.my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue." Miss Wyckoff, of Packer... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1905 - 426 pages
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when 1 have them rendered for me in my mothertongue." If such a man as Emerson... | |
 | 1908 - 408 pages
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I may have them rendered for me in my mother-tongue. For history there... | |
 | Harold Clarke Goddard - 1908 - 242 pages
...Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. . . . ' I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother-tongue." 1 On turning to a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 334 pages
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother-tongue. For history there is... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 pages
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 498 pages
...German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English...Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. For history there is... | |
 | George Herbert Betts - 1912 - 348 pages
...cannot read it after four years of study Says Emerson, "I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles River when I wish to go to Boston as of reading all my books in the original when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue." Latin, like mathematics,... | |
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