 | Gloria Gordon - 2007 - 200 pages
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 | Aliki Barnstone - 2006 - 220 pages
...Emerson contrasts the goodness he sees with the shame of Calvinist sin when in "Self-Reliance" he writes, "We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents" (Complete Writings 138). He replaces original sin, central to Calvinism, with original virtue, which... | |
 | John T. Lysaker - 2008 - 244 pages
...with its dictates to fashion a life that does it justice, though in this regard we rarely prove true. "We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents" (CW2, 28). An eloquent life averts such shame, however; and like the young preacher who inspires Emerson,... | |
 | 1971 - 360 pages
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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on .him, and another none. This sculpture... 
