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" 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,... "
... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes ...: Ralph Waldo Emerson, John ... - Page 133
by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892
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Essays

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...
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Essays

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...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 8

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...
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The New Englander, Volume 8

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...
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Essays

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...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

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...
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Essays, orations and lectures

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...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

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...
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Twelve Essays

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...
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The English Review, Volumes 11-12

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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