Why drag about this 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 even... The Lutheran Home Journal - Page 1791858Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays - 1841 - 324 pages
...the eyes of others 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...memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated te"thte or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then ? It seems to be a... | |
| 1842 - 740 pages
...After stating that a regard for consistency often ' scares us from our self-trust,' he asks, — ' But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public places' Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then:'' — Essay ii., p. 57. Why — it depends... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...the eyes of others 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 4 memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...the eyes of others 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...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...the eyes of others 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 1 Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...the eyes of others 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 4 memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...the eyes of others 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 ?... | |
| Augusta Jane Evans - 1859 - 518 pages
...to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. 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 ?... | |
| Augusta Jane Evans - Fiction - 1860 - 528 pages
...head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat yon have stated in this or that public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself?' His writings are, to me, like heaps of broken glass, beautiful in the individual crystal, sparkling,... | |
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