Hidden fields
Books Books
" I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons. I have not yet conquered my own house. It irks and repents me. Shall I raise the siege of this hencoop, and march baffled away to a pretended siege... "
Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With Annotations - Page 459
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911
Full view - About this book

The New England Magazine, Volume 17

1898 - 836 pages
...human piety. But this scheme was a rage in our poverty and politics to live rich and gentlemanlike. I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons." In his diary Alcott said, during the next month, that Ripley, Emerson. Parker, SD Robbins...
Full view - About this book

A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2

James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 446 pages
...poverty and politics to live rich and gentlemanlike ; an anchor to leeward against a change of weather. And not once could I be inflamed, but sat aloof and...prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons." He wrote to Mr. Ripley, towards the end of the year, that he had decided, " yet very slowly...
Full view - About this book

Works, Volume 14

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 456 pages
...poverty and politics to live rich and gentlemanlike; an anchor to leeward against a change of weather. And not once could I be inflamed, but sat aloof and...prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons." He wrote to Mr. Ripley, towards the end of the year, that he had decided, " yet very slowly...
Full view - About this book

A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2

James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 444 pages
...weather. And not once could I be inflamed, but sat aloof and thoughtless ; my voice faltered and full. It was not the cave of persecution, which is the palace...prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons." He wrote to Mr. Ripley, towards the end of the year, that he had decided, " yet very slowly...
Full view - About this book

A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2

James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 442 pages
...not the cave of persecution, which is the palace of spiritual power, but only a room in the Astor f House hired for the Transcendentalists. I do not !...prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons." He wrote to Mr. Ripley, towards the end of the year, that he had decided, " yet very slowly...
Full view - About this book

Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...degradation of owning bank-stock and seeing poor men suffer," and that he did not " wish to remove from (his) my present prison to a prison a little larger." " I wish to break all prisons." " At the name of a society, all my quills rise and sharpen." " Diet, medicine, traffic. books,...
Full view - About this book

The Dial, Volume 44

1908 - 312 pages
...externals, and could accomplish, even were they turned in the right direction, no real regeneration. " I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger," said Emerson, " I wish to break all prisons." There is nothing that we more need as a nation than a...
Full view - About this book

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oscar W. Firkins - 1915 - 404 pages
...unmannerly. "Yesterday George and Sophia Ripley, Margaret Fuller and Alcott discussed here the Social Plans. I wished to be convinced, to be thawed, to be made...prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons." We quote only half the passage: the unquoted hah* corrects in part the impression of a too...
Full view - About this book

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oscar W. Firkins - 1915 - 404 pages
...the j ;, Social Plans. I wished to be convinced, to be thawed, to be made nobly mad by the Idhdlings before my eye of a new dawn of human piety. But this...prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons." We quote only half the passage: the unquoted hah* corrects in part the impression of a too...
Full view - About this book

Emerson: A Statement of New England Transcendentalism as Expressed in the ...

Henry David Gray - 1917 - 130 pages
...refused to join in Ripley's Brook Farm experiment he seems to excuse his own conscience by saying, "I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons" (J. V, 473). The same attitude shows in what he has to say regarding the private ownership...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF