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 anything as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred ; none are profane ; I simply experiment,... Ralph Waldo Emerson. John Lathrop Motley - Page 133by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 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...experiment ; an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. Yet this incessant movement and progression, which all things partake, could never become sensible... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what 1 do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if...experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. Yet this incessant movement and progression, which all things partake, could never become sensible... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 pages
...somewhere this brave confession : — i" Do not set the least value on what I do, as if I intended to settle anything as true or false. I unsettle all...experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back." Did more ntier fatuity ever fall from the lips of man? This is chaos indeed! — n confusion as fatal... | |
| 1850 - 676 pages
...out somewhere this brave confession : — " Do not set the least value on what I do, as if I intended to settle anything as true or false. I unsettle all...experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back." Did more utter fatuity ever fall from the lips of man? .This is chaos indeed ! — a confusion as fatal... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts...experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. Yet this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 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,...experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. Yet this incessant movement and progression, which all things partake, could never become sensible... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 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,...experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. Yet this incessant movement and progression, which all things partake, could never become sensible... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...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...experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. Yet this incessant movement and progression, which all things partake, Could never become sensible... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts...experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. Yet this incessant movement and progression, which all things partake, could never become sensible... | |
| 1849 - 1052 pages
...: disorder is a blot, an error, an absurdity. How, then, shall we esteem his wisdom, who boasts. " I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred;...experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back ?" Unconnectcdly does this writer jerk forth his sayings; here is a perception, there a second, there... | |
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