 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 - 1893 - 126 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit3 than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat4 you have stated in this or that public place?... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 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?...somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Supfose you should contradict yourself ; what then ? t seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on... | |
 | 1896 - 234 pages
...nothing but eat when you were by, that now rolls out those words like bell-strokes." And again : " But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory ? " Also in these : " An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man." "... | |
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit3 than our past acts, and we are loth 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?... | |
 | Brainard Gardner Smith - 1898 - 216 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! Sew them up with packthread ; do. Else,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loth 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 ?... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pages
...glories of eternity ? strive, with your petty human powers, to prove them consistent things ? — " 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... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 596 pages
...glories of eternity ? strive, with your petty human powers, to prove them consistent things ? — " 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 - 1901 - 554 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 - 1902 - 206 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... | |
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