 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...  Select Essays and Poems - Page 19by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Augusta Jane Evans - 1859 - 518 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 ?... | |
 | Augusta Jane Evans - 1860 - 528 pages
...head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat yon have stated in this or that public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself?' His writings are, to me, like heaps of broken glass, beautiful in the individual crystal, sparkling,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 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 1... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 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 - 1876 - 302 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 - 1876 - 300 pages
...disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of jour memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for jndgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 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 - 1876 - 504 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 - 1876 - 470 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 ?... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1877 - 180 pages
...loath to disappoint them. " But why should you keep your head over your shoulders ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat...wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely oven in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousandeyed presents, and... | |
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