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Essays - Page 52
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pages
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Paul, Apostle of the Heart Set Free

Frederick Fyvie Bruce - 2000 - 530 pages
...the northern pan of Phrygia Paroreios (the territory lying north and 16. Cf. RW Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines" ("Essay on Self- Reliance", in Essays, Lectures and Orations [London, 1848], p. 30). See also FJ Foakes-Jackson,...
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Slavery & the Law

Paul Finkelman - 2002 - 488 pages
...Howard, Commentaries on the Constitution of Virginia, 1:61 [footnotes omitted]. 36. Ibid. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, i5th ed., ed. Emily Morrison Beck...
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Karl Marx: A Life

Francis Wheen - 2000 - 466 pages
...Waldo Emerson's def1ant creed: 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of litde minds, adored by litde statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.' It is no surprise, then, that a man who was perpetually skint throughout his working career should...
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Argument, Inference and Dialectic: Collected Papers on Informal Logic

Robert Pinto - 2001 - 178 pages
...sketched in the preceding two paragraphs. 3. WHEN lS lT REASONABLE TO TOLERATE lNCONSlSTENCY? A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson in Essays, "Self- Reliance" (First Series, 1841). Some faults are reprehensible;...
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Liability and Environment: Private and Public Law Aspects of Civil Liability ...

Lucas Bergkamp - 2001 - 744 pages
...normative implications; a judge should strive at consistency, coherence and integrity. — ' "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Emerson RW. Self Reliance. In: Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1940, p. 152. Note...
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Internet-enabled Business Intelligence

William A. Giovinazzo - 2003 - 356 pages
...from the ERP systems so as to not impact the operation of the business. To quote Emerson, "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen, and philosophers and divines." In considering whether we can practically run our ERP system and our data warehouse on one system,...
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Organization Change: Theory and Practice

W. Warner Burke - 2002 - 348 pages
...change effort — despite Ralph Waldo Emerson's derogatory comment about consistency, to wit, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." The key to this quote, however, is Emerson's adjective foolish, and consistency of word and deed by...
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プログラミングPerl, Volume 2

2002 - 704 pages
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Walking the Tightrope of Reason: The Precarious Life of a Rational Animal

Robert Fogelin - 2003 - 226 pages
...then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot. I will spue thee out of my mouth. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" Do I contradict myself? Very well then ... I contradict myself;...
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Years of Fulfillment

Mary Lutyens - 2003 - 266 pages
...all his clothes to someone in need. He once gave away his only overcoat. Emerson has said, 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.' If in nothing else, the inconsistencies in K's character would make him a great soul. From the time...
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