 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 - 1876 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 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the Government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, — under all these screens, I have...force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your thing, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 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 - 1852 - 352 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...shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blindmanVbuff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument. I hear a... | |
 | Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - 1861 - 660 pages
...* Essays, etc., by Emerson, pp. 24, 25. t Ibid., p. 39. J Ibid., p. 26. spread your table like base housekeepers, — under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. . . . We must walk alone."* Of course, no men will be esteemed great by him, save on the condition... | |
 | Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - 1861 - 674 pages
...Emerson, pp. 24, 25. t Ibid., p. 39. J Ibid., p. 26. spread your table like base housekeepers,—under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. . . . We must walk alone."* Of course, no men will be esteemed great by him, save on the condition... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 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...shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blindman'sjiuff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument. I hear... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and...must consider what a blind-man's-buff is this game of conformily. If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument. I hear a preacher announce for his text... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it,1 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... | |
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