 But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is...  The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 6by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Stanley Cavell - 1996 - 220 pages
...soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or by the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now...pass again into his neutral, godlike independence! ... He would utter opinions on all passing affairs, which being seen to be not private but necessary,... | |
 | Douglas Robinson - 1994 - 340 pages
...soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now...Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected,... | |
 | Donald Capps - 1995 - 212 pages
...soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat, he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds whose affections must now enter...Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality!"8 Here Emerson, himself deprived as a boy of love and affection by Calvinistic parents... | |
 | Shawn James Rosenheim, Stephen Rachman - 1995 - 388 pages
...soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now...enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this" (ibid., 150). The idea is that we have become permanently and unforgettably visible to one another,... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1996 - 278 pages
...soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now...Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected,... | |
 | Morris Dickstein - 1998 - 468 pages
...person" — one who has thereby devised only another prison for himself— "watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this."10 It was the desire of the strong poet-pragmatist to be conversant with ordinary folk while... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now...Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected,... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - 2003 - 262 pages
...soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympatliy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now...Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! . . . He would utter opinions on all passing affairs, which being seen to be not private... | |
 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 pages
...soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now...enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this." The idea is that we have become permanently and unforgettably visible to one another, in a state of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 pages
...soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now...Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected,... | |
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