| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...; 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...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
...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...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
...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...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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