 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....  Essays, First Series - Page 50by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1923 - 764 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 to detect the precise man you are. Not to ding too pathetically to a religion or a system of government or a theory of morals or a method... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 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...blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument. I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1966 - 308 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 to detect the precise man you are. Not to cling too pathetically to a religion or a system of government or a theory of morals or a method... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base ourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; 50 For I anticipate your argument. I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...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your table like base housekeepers, — under all these screens I have difficulty...are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from all your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...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...blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument. I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...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...blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument. I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one... | |
 | David Stouck - 1991 - 260 pages
...society creates a situation where 'much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your thing, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself (893). The essay concludes with a final reminder that 'Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing... | |
 | 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,... | |
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