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" But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then... "
Rough-hewn - Page 312
by Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 504 pages
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. " But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public...
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. 13. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated te"thte or that public place? Suppose you should contradict...yourself; what then ? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but bring the past for judgment...
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The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register

1841 - 640 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. " But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 12; Volume 76

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 782 pages
...After stating that a regard for consistency often ' scares us from our self-trust,' he asks, — ' But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1842 - 740 pages
...After stating that a regard for consistency often ' scares us from our self-trust,' he asks, — ' But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your 4 memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ? Suppose you should...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public...
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