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Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 99
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 383 pages
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American Literature

Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...he finds that he is the complement of his hearers; — that they drink his words because he fulfills ussell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal streets secretes! presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally...
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Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian ...

Stanley Cavell - 1990 - 207 pages
...phrases what he will call the ground of his hope that man is one by saying "the deeper [the scholar] dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment,...most acceptable, most public, and universally true" (p. 74). The contrast to the superfically private, which the most private can reach, Emerson characterizes...
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Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature

P. Adams Sitney - 1990 - 284 pages
...that they drink his words because he fulfills for them their own nature; the deeper he dives into the privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he...the most acceptable, most public, and universally true.11 Brakhage also invokes the doctrine of "Necessity," fundamental to the late Emerson of The Conduct...
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Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory

Kenneth R. Johnston - 1990 - 454 pages
...the ground of his hope that man is one, by saying "the deeper [the scholar] dives into his privates!, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this...most acceptable, most public and universally true" (74). The contrast to the private, which the most private can reach, is characterized in the former...
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Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian ...

Stanley Cavell - 1990 - 207 pages
...the ground of his hope that man is one by saying "the deeper [the scholar) dives into his privatesi, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this...most acceptable, most public, and universally true" (p. 74). The contrast to the superfically private, which the most private can reach, Emerson characterizes...
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A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises

Stanley Cavell - 1996 - 220 pages
...education in question is one grounding the conviction, in words of Emerson, that "the deeper the scholar dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment,...most acceptable, most public, and universally true." Put otherwise, it is an education that prepares the recognition that we live lives simultaneously of...
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Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and Their Audiences in ...

William G. Rowland - 1996 - 254 pages
...he finds that he is the complement of his hearers; — that they drink his words because he fulfills for them their own nature; the deeper he dives into...most acceptable, most public, and universally true. (74) Melville embraced the professional ethos more fully than Hawthorne or Emerson and was a professed...
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Reason to Believe: Romanticism, Pragmatism, and the Teaching of Writing

Hephzibah Roskelly, Kate Ronald - 1998 - 212 pages
...sentiments of future American pragmatists" (1993a, 36). SELF-RELIANCE AND COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY The deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest...most acceptable, most public, and universally true. — Emerson, "American Scholar" In American romantic/pragmatic rhetoric a guiding principle is the...
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The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture

Morris Dickstein - 1998 - 468 pages
...man is one, that we are capable of achieving our commonness, by saying that "the deeper [the scholar] dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment,...the most acceptable, most public, and universally true."7 Is this route to the universal compatible with what Dewey means by science and its method?...
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A Map to the End of Time: Wayfarings with Friends and Philosophers

Ronald J. Manheimer - 1999 - 364 pages
...all the stops, he quotes Emerson to the effect that "the deeper the scholar dives into his privates!, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this...most acceptable, most public, and universally true." I considered this matter as I read several thousand pages of first-person narrative toward the end...
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