Identifier: emersonpoetthink00cary (find matches)
Title: Emerson, poet and thinker
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cary, Elisabeth Luther, 1867-1936 Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, binding designer Margaret Armstrong Binding Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Authors, American
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Dr. Holmes has vividly depicted his mode of exhibit-ing mirth: When he laughed it was under protest,as it were, with closed doors, his mouth shut, so thatthe explosion had to seek another respiratory channel,and found its way out quietly, while his eyebrows,and nostrils and all his features betrayed theground swell,as Prof. Thayer happily called it, ofthe half-suppressed convulsion.^ From the experiences of his youth Emerson wasable to deduce a philosophy of training for youngpeople singularly free from impracticability, yet highlyimaginative and far-sighted. Books always areneeded for purposes of culture, he holds, but booksare good only as far as a boy is ready for them.* He hates the grammar and Gradus, and loves guns,fishing-rods, horses, and boats. Well, the boy isright and you are not fit to direct his bringing-upif your theory leaves out his gymnastic training.Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse andboat, are all educators, liberalisers; and so are danc-ing, dress, and

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