 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...you is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead...so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...you is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead...so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...you, is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time, and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead...so much, force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must... | |
 | Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - 1861 - 674 pages
...Emerson, pp. 24, 25. t Ibid., p. 39. J Ibid., p. 26. spread your table like base housekeepers,—under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. . . . We must walk alone."* Of course, no men will be esteemed great by him, save on the condition... | |
 | Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - 1861 - 682 pages
...the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead Church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, * Essays, etc., by Emerson, pp. 24, 25. f Ibid., p. 39. J Ibid., p. 26. INTRODUCTION. spread your table... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible society, vote with a great party either for the government...so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible society, vote with a great party either for the government...so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead...a great party either for the government or against it,1 spread your table like base housekeepers, — under all these screens I have difficulty to detect... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base VOL. I. 3 D housekeepers, — under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base VOL. I. 3 D housekeepers, — under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you... | |
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The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party... 
