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" In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored... "
The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America - Page 151
by Fredrika Bremer - 1858
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Foundations of English Style

Paul Milton Fulcher - 1927 - 336 pages
...fact that his own individuality ought to be steadfastly preserved. As Emerson says in continuation, "Great works of art have no more '" affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impressions with goodhumoured inflexibility, then most when the whole cry of voices is...
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Liberty and the Great Libertarians: An Anthology on Liberty, a Hand-book of ...

Charles T. Sprading - 1913 - 550 pages
...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great...lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good humored inflexibility the most when the whole cry of voices is on...
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The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: First Series. Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great...lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great...lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on...
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Microsociology: Discourse, Emotion, and Social Structure

Thomas J. Scheff - 1990 - 231 pages
...we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. [4| Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on...
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Hearing Things: Voice and Method in the Writing of Stanley Cavell

Timothy Gould - 1998 - 253 pages
...Emerson is trying to instill: In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great...lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on...
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Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection

Jerrold Levinson - 1998 - 344 pages
...But, as Emerson claims, "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great...works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this."34 Art's capacity to keep alive certain moral perspectives, even if these views diverge radically...
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Hearing Things: Voice and Method in the Writing of Stanley Cavell

Timothy Gould - 1998 - 253 pages
...majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility...when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. As with Cavell's allegories of the work of the text as a function of the voice, Emerson's remarks are...
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The Good Life

Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great...lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on...
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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great...lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on...
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