 | Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 psl.
...Let us see him in his school, and consider him in reference to the main influences he receives. /. The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Everyday, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.... | |
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 psl.
...privilege. Let us see him in his school, and consider him in reference to the main influences he receives. I. The first in time and the first in importance of...women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar must needs stand wistful and admiring before this great spectacle. He must settle its value in his... | |
 | Martin Bickman - 2003 - 193 psl.
...him as searching for a working dialectical relation among all three. Emerson considers "nature" to be "the first in time and the first in importance of the influences on the mind" (p. 55), yet it gets the shortest treatment. One reason is that his book, Nature, already... | |
 | Nancy J. Nordenson - 2003 - 196 psl.
...therefore, a common venue for discovery. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his essay "The American Scholar," "Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, Night and...and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages" (emphasis added).20 In a similar vein, the Old Testament psalmist continually... | |
 | David Carr - 2006 - 180 psl.
...soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.""' On what is the heroic character founded? "Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, Night and...and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages."" Think of the Emersonian scholar in our contemporary world as the individual,... | |
 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 psl.
...self. Emerson would express this succinctly in his "American Scholar" address (1837) where he says; "The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature." 89 In order to be mentally healthy, the individual must establish a harmonious relationship with both... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 psl.
...privilege. Let us see him in his school, and consider him in reference to the main influences he receives. I. The first in time and the first in importance of...and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him? There is never... | |
 | Robert Atkinson - 2008 - 204 psl.
...in importance of the influences in the education of the scholar was particularly intriguing to me: Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her...and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him? There is never... | |
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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... 
