 In your metaphysies you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot,...  Essays: First series - Page 52by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Pinto - 2001 - 178 pages
...sketched in the preceding two paragraphs. 3. WHEN lS lT REASONABLE TO TOLERATE lNCONSlSTENCY? A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson in Essays, "Self- Reliance" (First Series, 1841). Some faults are reprehensible;... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - 2002 - 488 pages
...Howard, Commentaries on the Constitution of Virginia, 1:61 [footnotes omitted]. 36. Ibid. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, i5th ed., ed. Emily Morrison Beck... | |
 | Ken Henderson - 2002 - 794 pages
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 | Harvey Cormier - 2001 - 216 pages
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 | George Kateb - 2002 - 278 pages
...concessions to popular religiousness as to say in "Self-Reliance" itself that: In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when...Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. (p. 265) We want to ask, Flee from what to what? From sophisticated vagueness to a self-indulgent will... | |
 | Hank Rainwater - 2002 - 280 pages
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 | Doug McMullen - 2002 - 214 pages
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 | David Baker - 2002 - 224 pages
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