 O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto. Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.  So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance - Page 24by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 46 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 284 pages
...least resist our temptations; let us enter into the state of war and wake Thor and Woden, courage and constancy, in our Saxon breasts. This is to be done...our smooth times by speaking the truth. Check this King hospitality and lying affection. Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...least resist our temptations, let us enter into the state of war and wake Thor and Woden, courage and constancy, in our Saxon breasts. This is to be done in our smooth times by speaking the troth. Check this lying hospitality and lying affection. Live no longer to the expectation of these... | |
 | Ross Posnock, Associate Professor of English Ross Posnock - 2006 - 334 pages
..."let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times," he avers. "This is to be done in our smooth times by speaking...lying affection. Live no longer to the expectation of those deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse" (Essays 267, 273). Dostoyevsky's narrator... | |
 | Dan P. McAdams - 2005 - 402 pages
...family, and lovers, a person must stay true to the inner self: Say to them, O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto. Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no less law than the eternal laws.... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 pages
...least resist our temptations; let us enter into the state of war and wake Thor and Woden, courage and constancy, in our Saxon breasts. This is to be done...converse. Say to them, 'O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto. Henceforward I am the truth's.... | |
 | Jason A. Scorza - 2008 - 290 pages
...conflict altogether, or even begin to doubt their own convictions. As Emerson writes, in "Self-Reliance," "Check this lying hospitality and lying affection....of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse."61 Fear of conspicuousness mainly pertains to being seen by others, but it can also be related... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...least resist our temptations; let us enter into the state of war, and wake Thor and Woden, courage and constancy, in our Saxon breasts. This is to be done...deceiving people with whom we converse. Say to them, 0 father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto.... | |
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