 If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, — under all these screens, I have difficulty to detect the precise man you...  Essays and Poems of Emerson - Page 155by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Stouck - 1991 - 260 pages
...conformist's posture. Expending vital energy to satisfy the wishes of society creates a situation where 'much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But...you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself (893). The essay concludes with a final reminder that 'Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing... | |
 | Randolph Bourne - 1992 - 556 pages
...the impression of your character. lf you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers—under all these screens l have difficulty to detect the precise man you are: and of... | |
 | Martin Klammer - 2010 - 193 pages
...278-79). Emerson tells his readers that "under all the screens" of religious and political affiliation "I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are:...so much force is withdrawn from your proper life" (263). Likewise, in "Spiritual Laws" Emerson warns about the dangers of losing one's self to the "machine"... | |
 | 1909 - 498 pages
...the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your tables like base housekeepers, under all these screens, I have difficulty to detect the precise man... | |
 | 1903 - 400 pages
...Thinking " but Man Acting. "Your goodness must have some edge to it else it is none . . . Do your work and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself . . . Every new mind is a new classification. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Do that which is assigned... | |
 | Leonard Cassuto - 1997 - 314 pages
...kind, anti-slavery labour. — Samuel Ringgold Ward, Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro Do your work and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" This chapter examines me theory and practice of objectification... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Biblesociety, vote with a great party either for the government...force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what... | |
 | Charles Ives - 1962 - 292 pages
...your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. . . . But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. ("Self-Reliance," Essays 1, 11,55.) Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for the Government...shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument. I hear... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers,—under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of... | |
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