 Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.  The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 2by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 484 pages
...is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. In my saying Emerson is here enacting as well as describing a scene of humbling or shaming, I mean... | |
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...Genius oí architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land. Thomas Jefferson (1781) There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841) 1. The Tradition of American Classicism Architectural theory in the United... | |
 | Jodi O'Brien - 2006 - 586 pages
...is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...take with shame our own opinion from another. There are several important ideas in this passage, but they are not developed by Emerson, only mentioned... | |
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...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. 2(J"]) Emerson was once caricatured as a "Transparent fc=l Eye-Ball" - quite apt in light of this comment.... | |
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...is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. ("SR," 131-32 in CC, 139) Emerson calls the gleam of light "Intuition," or "Instinct." It symbolizes... | |
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...mind from within, . . . else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...to take with shame our own opinion from another." . . . Language does not help us at this point; rather the Presidential Address delivered before the... | |
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