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" 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 50
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pages
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College Life

Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 568 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or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, — under all these screens I have difficulty...force is withdrawn from your proper life.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...
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Readings from American Literature: A Textbook for Schools and Colleges

Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 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or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, — under all these screens I have difficulty...much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do 5 your thing, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider...
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The Heroic Dead: And Other Sermons

Frederick Homes Dudden - 1917 - 172 pages
...in peace or in war, will carry us through to success and victory. " Do your work," says Emerson, " and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much." Let me say just one...
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Essays for College English

James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 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...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...
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An American Bible

Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...man you are. And of course, so 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. A man must consider what a blindman'sbuff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument. I hear...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...BibleSociety, or 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...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 pages
...party either for the Govern302 THE REFLECTIVE ESSAY ment or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, — under all these screens I have difficulty...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...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...BibleSociety, or vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, — under all these screens, I have...detect the precise man you are. And, of course, so rmirh fprce is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your thing, and I shall know you. Do your work,...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...precise man you are. And of course so 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. A man must consider what a blindman's buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument. I hear...
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