 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts...experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. Yet this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts...experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. Yet this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that 1 am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value...experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. Yet this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to... | |
 | Augusta Jane Evans - 1859 - 518 pages
...indeed ? Then he flatly contradicts you when he says, ' But lest I should mislead any, when I have my own head, and obey my whims, let me remind the reader...experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.' To my fancy that savors strongly of nihilism, as regards creeds." self-sufficient demeanor toward the... | |
 | Augusta Jane Evans - 1865 - 520 pages
...? Then he flatly contradicts you when he says, ' But lest I should mislead any, when I have my owe head, and obey my whims, let me remind the reader...experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.' To my fancy that savor* utrongly of nihilism, as regards creeds " " There is no such passage in Emerson,"... | |
 | 1868 - 514 pages
...settle anything as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me too sacred ; none are too profane ; I simply experiment — an endless seeker, with no past at my back." It is this unsettling of all things — this removing of ancient landmarks — this cutting of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...pure, nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions. But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader...experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. Yet this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 418 pages
...not, as if I pretended to settle anything true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts to me are sacred ; none are profane ; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back." ' Unlike Him who declared that he was the light of the world, Emerson here announces that he is a planet... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 pages
...if I pretended to settle anything true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts to me are snored; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back." ' Unlike Him who declared that he was the light of the world, Emerson here announces that he is a planet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...pure, nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions. But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader...experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. Yet this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to... | |
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I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle anything as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred ; none are profane ; I simply experiment,... 
