 | Louis Wann - 1926 - 560 pages
...whom I do not belong, a dead Bible-society, vote with a great There is a class of persons to whom by party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeep- faces, have no deep cause, but are put on ers, — under all these screens I have diffi-... | |
 | Randolph Bourne - 1992 - 556 pages
...might think that this essay was written under the influence of Emerson's "Self-Reliance." Compare: The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. lt loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. lf you maintain a dead church, contribute... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1994 - 284 pages
...actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. The objection to conforming to usages that have become...your time and blurs the impression of your character. ... A man must consider what a blind-man's-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate... | |
 | Benita von Heynitz - 1994 - 252 pages
...only wrong what is against U... (30) What I do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think... The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. (31) Emerson wendet sich in diesem Textausschnitt gegen die Anpassung an Lebensumstände und Lebensformen,... | |
 | 1909 - 498 pages
...man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your tables... | |
 | Charles Ives - 1962 - 292 pages
...impact on his receptive, imaginative, and ambitious mind of passages in Emerson such as the following: The objection to conforming to usages that have become...your time and blurs the impression of your character. . . . But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. ("Self-Reliance,"... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...against onanism, is seen, in its own "deadness," as diminishing or deadening the force of the individual: The objection to conforming to usages that have become...government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers,—under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of... | |
 | Maida Herman Solomon - 2004 - 146 pages
...our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps... the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become...time and blurs the impression of your character... But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself... - Ralph Waldo... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like... | |
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The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. 
