Hidden fields
Books Books
" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. "
The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository - Page 550
1851
Full view - About this book

Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul lias simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,...
Full view - About this book

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosopher and Poet

Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has little or nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now, in hard words ; and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in hard words...
Full view - About this book

Development of English Literature and Language

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...consistency Is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,...
Full view - About this book

Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,...
Full view - About this book

Complete Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,...
Full view - About this book

Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...consistency is the hobpoblin of little minds, adored by little states nen and philosophers and divines. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again,...
Full view - About this book

Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,...
Full view - About this book

Complete Rhetoric

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 368 pages
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in words as hard again — though it contradict everything you said to-day. ' Ah, then,' exclaimed the...
Full view - About this book

Complete Rhetoric

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...pack-thread — -do. Else, if you would be a man. speak what yon think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks, in words...
Full view - About this book

Complete Rhetoric

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to...wall. Out upon your guarded lips. Sew them up with pack-thread—do. Else, if you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls,...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF