 | 1872 - 488 páginas
...for himself by Mr. Emerson : " 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,...I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue." Very well. But Mr. Emerson has long since ceased to be a college student. But who cannot use translations... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 316 páginas
...from every region under heaven. 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. For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student through early Rome. If... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 304 páginas
...from every region under heaven. 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. For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student through early Rome. If... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1870 - 780 páginas
...traduttori, — but I thank them. ... 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." This is the first considerable American attempt at the translation of Homer ; and we... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 334 páginas
...from every region under heaven. 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. For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student through early Rome. If... | |
 | 1870 - 972 páginas
...insight or broad human sentiment I 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 me in my mother-tongue. " This sentiment, uttered by so scholarly a man as Emerson,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...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. Books. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. Look, then, into thine heart, and write ! Voices of the Night. Prelude.... | |
 | Frederick William Ricord - 1879 - 242 páginas
...from every region under heaven. 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." It may be claimed for the English speech that it has some advantages over every other... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 512 páginas
...from every region under heaven. 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,...I have them rendered for me in my mother' tongue. For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student through early Rome. If he can read Livy,... | |
 | 1880 - 444 páginas
...from every region under heaven. 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 mothertongue. For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student through early Rome. If... | |
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... 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 heaven. I should as soon... 
