 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 - 1905 - 70 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...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but bring the past for judgment into the thousandeyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your emotion.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...property, on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading. IT seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your...thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 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...place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what 10 then ? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 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 - eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality... | |
 | 1909 - 540 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...thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your emotion. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet when the devout... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...them. 30 13. 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...public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself I what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict 15 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 20 your metaphysics you have denied personality... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 530 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...then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on 30 your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 568 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...thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your emotion. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet when the devout... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...But why should you keep )'our head over your shoulder? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated...judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever 5 in a new day. Trust your emotion. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet... | |
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