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.... Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 50by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
| Randolph Bourne - 1992 - 556 pages
...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:...withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and l shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blind-man's-buff... | |
| David Bromwich - 1994 - 284 pages
...is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. ... A man must consider what a blind-man's-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument. . . . Most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief,... | |
| 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of religious and political affiliation "I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are:...so much force is withdrawn from your proper life" (263).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"... | |
| 1903 - 400 pages
...only "Man 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... | |
| 1909 - 498 pages
...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 that you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. Man is timid and apologetic.... | |
| Leonard Cassuto - 1997 - 314 pages
...States, as, in its 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
...Biblesociety, 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...shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blind-man's-bluff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument. I hear... | |
| Charles Ives - 1962 - 292 pages
...is that it scatters 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
...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...force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your thing, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what... | |
| David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...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...you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. (E, 263-64, my emphasis) Death and "scattered force" can be linked by Emerson because the logic of... | |
| |