 Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely...  The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 14by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...are loth to disappoint them. But why should you keep you head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat...then ? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely upon your memory even in acts of pure memory ; but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than pur past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public 13 place?... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ?... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ?... | |
 | Augusta Jane Wilson - 1883 - 394 pages
...to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ?... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ?... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose... | |
 | Brainard Gardner Smith - 1891 - 188 pages
...Whitefield's oratory was not perfected until he had delivered a sermon for the fortieth time." 24. Why should you keep your head over your shoulder ?...have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you do contradict yourself; what then? Out upon your guarded lips I Sew them up with packthread; do. Else,... | |
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