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" The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. "
Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed - Page 55
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 pages
...keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force....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...
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 10. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force....time and blurs the impression of your character. If 5 you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...with perfect sweetness the inde- 15 pendence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your...contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great 20 party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, — under...
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English Journal, Volume 12

1923 - 422 pages
...from each. Assign them if you can: If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible society, vote with a great party, either for the government...have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. To go a step farther still, their views even on the theory of the obligations of person to person are...
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become 35 dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses...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...
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College Life, Its Conditions and Problems: A Selection of Essays for Use in ...

Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 pages
...keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force....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...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have be- 30 come dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses...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...
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Essays for College English

James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your tune and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you, is, that it scatters your...a dead church, contribute to a dead BibleSociety, or vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers,...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 pages
...keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force....If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for the Govern302 THE REFLECTIVE ESSAY ment or against...
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