 | Randolph Bourne - 1992 - 556 pages
...you is that it scatters your force. lt loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. lf you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society,...government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers—under all these screens l have difficulty to detect the precise man you are: and of... | |
 | Martin Klammer - 2010 - 193 pages
...278-79). Emerson tells his readers that "under all the screens" of religious and political affiliation "I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are:...so much force is withdrawn from your proper life" (263). Likewise, in "Spiritual Laws" Emerson warns about the dangers of losing one's self to the "machine"... | |
 | 1909 - 498 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 tables like base housekeepers, under all these screens, I have difficulty to detect the precise man... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 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 If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead...so much force is withdrawn from your proper life.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... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 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a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible Society, vote with a great party either for the Government...so much force is withdrawn from your proper life.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 thing, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 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...government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers,—under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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 If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead...so much force is withdrawn from your proper life.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 - 2005 - 69 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 thing, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...church, join the bible society, vote with the Whig or Government party, spread your table like other housekeepers, under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. Do your thing & I shall know you. JULY* 'Twas one of the charmed days When the Genius of God doth flow,... | |
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 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... | |
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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... 
