 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...  Essays. 1901 - Page 260by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...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... | |
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - 1857 - 388 pages
...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 and obey my whims, let...as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts to me are sacred,— none are profane ; I simply experiment,—an endless seeker, with no past at my... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1868 - 514 pages
...public, to make, each man for himself, the honest confession of Emerson — " Lest I should mislead any when I have my own head, and obey my whims, let...or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me too sacred ; none are too profane ; I simply experiment — an endless seeker, with no past at my back."... | |
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