Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely... Select Essays and Poems - Seite 19von Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 Seiten
...loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present and live ever in a new day. Trust your... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 Seiten
...has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere - FROM ALI BEN ABU TALEB But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? . . . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers... | |
| University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 Seiten
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ? Suppose... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 Seiten
...keep your head over your shoulder? iVhy drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you ;ontradlct somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself, what :hen? It seems to be_a rule of wisdom never to rely on ^our memory aloneTscarcely even in acts of pure... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 Seiten
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them. Bur provement, to corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 Seiten
...other datafor computing than our ast, anf" find "m " nilith Tfl Pie"nr"iriT P'VPS of ot i . But wny should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Siipnpse... | |
| Lucy Lockwood Hazard - 1927 - 344 Seiten
...Emerson insisted that man should be independent even of his own past acts and words. "Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat...Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?" With the same consummate nonchalance, Whitman says: Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 Seiten
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated so in this or that public place?... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 Seiten
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 Seiten
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose... | |
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