 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
 | Ben Witherington - 2007 - 395 pages
...flagrant immorality.2 It was the great American Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson who said "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Doubtless he was right, but in fact impartiality and fairness to all are not small virtues. All sin... | |
 | Kimberly Campbell - 2007 - 233 pages
...Publishers. All rights reserved. No reproduction without written permission from publisher. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Students noted the quotes listed above as lines that struck them in this essay. They wanted to know... | |
 | Naomi S. Baron Professor of Linguistics American University - 2008 - 305 pages
...this transformation see Baron 2000, chapter 5. 11. See, for example, Kakutani 2002. 12. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, "Self-Reliance.") 13. Baron 2000. 14. Dave Barry, "Wit's End," Washington... | |
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