Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? Essays - Page 52by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...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...to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory aloiw, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1877 - 180 pages
...them. " But why should you keep your head over your shoulders ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated...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... | |
| Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...disappoint them. .But why should you keep you head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated...then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely upon your memory even in acts of pure memory ; but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed... | |
| Augusta Jane Wilson - 1883 - 394 pages
...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...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 - 1883 - 648 pages
...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 13 place? Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then ? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never... | |
| Brainard Gardner Smith - 1891 - 188 pages
...24. Why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you do contradict yourself; what then? Out upon your guarded lips I Sew them up with packthread; do. Else,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat4 you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose...memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed5 present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Supfose you should contradict yourself ; what then ? t seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on... | |
| 1896 - 374 pages
...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...memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed5 present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality... | |
| Brainard Gardner Smith - 1898 - 216 pages
...24. Why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you do contradict yourself; what then? Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up with packthread ; do. Else,... | |
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