 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 - 2005 - 484 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... Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! ... He would utter opinions on all passing affairs,... | |
 | Kenneth Paradis - 2012 - 240 pages
...blank. 3 PARANOIA AS POPULAR HEROISM: HARD-BOILED MORAL MASCULINITY Who can thus avoid all pledges, and having observed, observe again from the same unaffected,...unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable. He would utter opinions on all passing affairs, which being seen to be not private, but necessary,... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 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,... | |
 | Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey - 2007 - 210 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. [Emerson, in Cavell, IQO, p. 1 19] To live my life not for a spectacle but to live it for itself, does... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 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,... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 430 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 lose all pledges and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected,... | |
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