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" 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 52
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 pages
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The Closed Captioning Handbook

Gary D. Robson - 2004 - 412 pages
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The Valley of the Second Sons: Letters of Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, a ...

Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell - 2004 - 598 pages
...don't exactly go that far with him, are interesting: 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has little or nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you...
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Questions from the Bench

Douglas S. Lavine - 2004 - 228 pages
...their own set of rules. As Ralph Waldo Emerson stated in his famous essay, Self-Reliance: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." I hope nobody reading this book will conclude that I believe my suggestions and advice are written...
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Lilamani: A Study in Possibilities

Maud Diver - 2004 - 396 pages
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Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music

Jay R. Howard - 1999 - 316 pages
...thinkers like Camp and Styll for their inconsistency — in the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines"70 — but rather to point out the problematic nature of determining how in fact the term "ministry"...
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Compensation and Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your emotion. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet when...with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph Ms coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,...
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Chase's ... Calendar of Events

2005 - 758 pages
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Except for the Grace

George D. Johnson - 2007
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A Year with Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...overlook the old. Trust your emotion. If perchance you say in a metaphysical analysis I cannot concede personality to the Deity, yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart & soul if they should clothe God with garments of shape and color. Blind men in Rome complained that...
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