 | T. Gregory Garvey - 2001 - 310 pages
...sentence also faintly echoes his response to the discussion of the plans for Brook Farm in October 1 840. "I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger," he explained on October 17, 1840. "I wish to break all prisons" (JMN 7 : 408). Ironically, given his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 228 pages
...pressed Emerson to join. But Emerson remained skeptical of the potential success of such experiments. "I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a litde larger," he wrote in his journal. "I wish to break all prisons. I have not yet conquered my own... | |
 | Andrew Epstein - 2006 - 376 pages
...Transcendentalists in their experimental commune at Brook Farm, Emerson declined, writing in his journal: I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons, I have not yet conquered my own house. ... It seems that to do so were to dodge the problem... | |
 | Kit Bakke - 2006 - 284 pages
...communities. He did not believe in social theories that threatened to break up families, nor did he "wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger." Rather, he wrote, "I wish to break all prisons." Charles Lane was no fan of Emerson's, describing him... | |
 | George McKenna - 2007 - 454 pages
...Magazine 17, no. 4 (December, 1897): 391. Emerson was invited to join but declined, giving as his reason, "I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons." Ibid. 109. Perry Miller, Errand Into the Wilderness (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 19561,203.... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...and & prosperity. And not once could I be inflamed - but sat aloof & thoughtless, my voice faltered & fell. It was not the cave of persecution which is...prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons. I have not yet conquered my own house. It irks & repents me. Shall I raise the siege of this... | |
 | Maurice York, Rick Spaulding - 2008 - 278 pages
...could I be inflamed," he wrote the next day, "but sat aloof and thoughtless; my voice faltered and fell I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons. I have not yet conquered my own house. . . . Shall I raise the siege of this hencoop, and... | |
 | 116 pages
...refused to join in Ripley's Brook Farm experiment he seems to excuse his own conscience by saying, "I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons" (J. V, 473). The same attitude shows in what he has to say regarding the private ownership... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1923 - 490 pages
...short-lived and ill-fated vegetarian community of Fruitlands; and Emerson stayed in Concord with the comment: "I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. ... I have not yet conquered my own house. It irks and repents me. Shall I raise the siege of this hen coop,... | |
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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons. I have not yet conquered my own house. It irks and repents me. Shall I raise the siege of this hencoop, and march baffled away to a pretended siege... 
