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" But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as... "
Beulah: A Novel - Page 270
by Augusta Jane Evans - 1898 - 492 pages
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...selfishness and sin itself ; so that no evil is pure ; nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions. But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head,...an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what 1 do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle anything as true or false....
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...selfishness and sin itself; so that no evil is pure, nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions. But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head...discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane ; I...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...selfishness and sin itself; so that no evil is pure ; nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions. But lest I should mislead any when I have my. own...discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred ; none are profane ; I...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...selfishness and sin itself; so that no evil is pure ; nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions. But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head,...value on what I do, or the least discredit on what 1 do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...selfishness and sin itself; so that no evil is pure, nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions. But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head...discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred ; none are profane ; I...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...selfishness and sin itself; so that no evil is pure, nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions. But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head...discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred ; none are profane ; I...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...selfishness and sin itself; so that no evil is pure, nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions. But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that 1 am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what...
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English and Scottish Sketches

Oliver Prescott Hiller - 1857 - 388 pages
...keep the following just description of himself before our minds, and then we shall not be led astray: "Lest I should mislead any when I have my own head...as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts to me are sacred,β€” none are profane ; I simply experiment,β€”an endless seeker, with no past at my...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...selfishness and sin itself; so that no evil is pure, nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions. But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head...experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, of the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I...
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Forward, a monthly magazine of liberal evangelical theology and ..., Volume 2

1868 - 514 pages
...ought, in justice to the public, to make, each man for himself, the honest confession of Emerson β€” " Lest I should mislead any when I have my own head,...or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me too sacred ; none are too profane ; I simply experiment β€” an endless seeker, with no past at my back."...
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