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" 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... "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series - Page 318
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903
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Essays

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...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...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 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,...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....
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

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,...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...
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Essays, orations and lectures

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,...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...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 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,...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...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 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 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...
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English and Scottish Sketches

Oliver Prescott Hiller - 1857 - 388 pages
...keep the following just 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...discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle anything as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts to me are sacred,— none are profane ;...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 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...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...
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Beulah: A Novel

Augusta Jane Evans - 1859 - 518 pages
...to under all circumstances." " Oh ! has he, indeed ? Then he flatly contradicts you when he says, ' But lest I should mislead any, when I have my own...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...
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Beulah: A Novel

Augusta Jane Evans - 1865 - 520 pages
...? Then he flatly contradicts you when he says, ' But lest I should mislead any, when I have my owe head, and obey my whims, let me remind the reader...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...
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