 ... interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness....  Essays - Page 49by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with £clat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...verdict. You must court him : he docs not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable, must always engage the poet's... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with edit, he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat1 he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy...affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe2 for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who3 can thus avoid all pledges,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...verdict. You must court him : he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable, must always engage the poet's... | |
 | 1896 - 234 pages
...verdict. You must court him ; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...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,... | |
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat1 he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy...affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe2 for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who3 can thus avoid all pledges,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 pages
...verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...is a committed person, watched by 'the synjpathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose afiections 'imust now enter into his account. There is no 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,... | |
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