O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto. Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. Essays: First Series - Page 81by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
| Horace James Bridges - 1926 - 448 pages
...incidentally a vulgarisation) of the passage: "Say to them, "0 father, 0 mother, 0 wife, 0 brother, 0 friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto....henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law!" Or they read Nietzsche — can they find a nobler greatness in the tortured spirit of the oppressed... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...be done in our smooth times by speaking the truth. Check this lying hospitality and lying affection. Page & company "0 father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...be done in our smooth times by speaking the truth. Check this lying hospitality and lying affection. Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived...deceiving people with whom we converse. Say to them, 0 father, 0 mother, 0 wife, 0 brother, 0 friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto.... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...done in our smooth times by speaking the truth. Check this lying «о hospitality and lying affection. Live no longer to the expectation- of these deceived...deceiving people with whom we converse. Say to them, О father, 0 mother, 0 wife, 0 brother, О friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto.... | |
| Charles T. Sprading - 1913 - 550 pages
...conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul. Check this lying hospitality and lying affection. Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived...deceiving people with whom we converse. Say to them, 0 father, O mother, 0 wife, O brother, 0 friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...be done in our smooth times by speaking the truth. Check this lying hospitality and lying affection. Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived...I will have no covenants but proximities. I shall endeavour to nourish my parents, to support my family, to be the chaste husband of one wife, — but... | |
| Richard H. Brodhead - 1990 - 267 pages
...especially, I think, Emerson, who states the principle of being Pierre acts out in "SelfReliance": "O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend,...appearances hitherto. Henceforward I am the Truth's;" "when good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; ...... | |
| L. Rust Hills - 1993 - 276 pages
...sacred to me," says Emerson, "but that of my own nature." And when later in "Self-reliance" he says, "Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law," you have the feeling that by "eternal" he really means "internal." It is yourself only that you obey,... | |
| T. Walter Herbert - 1993 - 360 pages
...this view was in keeping with his broader doctrines of the self-sufficient soul (Myerson, 330-332). "Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse," he had proclaimed in "Self-Reliance." "Say to them, 'O father, O mother, O wife ... I have lived with... | |
| Joy Hakim - 2003 - 356 pages
...future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. . Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you...I will have no covenants but proximities. I shall endeavour to nourish my parents, to support my family, to be the chaste husband of one wife, — but... | |
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