work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context 5355,"","Searching ""mind"" in ECCO",2004-10-01 00:00:00 UTC,"That is, let not great examples, or authorities, browbeat they reason into too great a diffidence fo thyself: thyself so reverence, as to prefer the native growth of thy own mind to the richest import from abroad; such borrowed riches make us poor. The man who thus reverences himself, will soon find the world's reverence to follow his own. His works will stand distinguished; his the sole property of them; which property alone can confer the noble title of an author: that is, of one who, to speak accurately, thinks, and composes; while other invaders of teh press, how voluminous, and learned soever, with due respect be it spoken, only read and write.
(II, 254)",,14349,"•REVISIT. Investigate more this ""native growth."" The expression appears throughout the period. ","""That is, let not great examples, or authorities, browbeat they reason into too great a diffidence fo thyself: thyself so reverence, as to prefer the native growth of thy own mind to the richest import from abroad; such borrowed riches make us poor.""","",2014-09-01 16:25:13 UTC,Vol. II