...of opinion to be inconstancy. CICERO— Ep. ad Atticum. Bk. XVI. 8. (See also EMERSON) 7 A foolish ead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. Attributed to LORD BROUGHAM. 1 EMERSON — Essays. Self-Reliance. s With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. * * *...

...quanta vuole. " Which sounds very much like a famous passage in Emerson (quoted from memory): "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great •I3 Curiositei estheliques, p. 203. '14 Ibid., p. 201. soul has simply nothing to do. Speak what...

...them«. es kommt auf den Leser an — einer seiner typischsten Aussprüche also lautet: »A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do«. Mit den Philosophen scheint Emerson sich überhaupt nicht gut verstanden zu haben, dies muß bekannt...

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...memory, aut to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and" divinesT With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with...

...great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. — EMERSON. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. — EMERSON. There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free...

...we might say something today that contradicts what we said last weekend. But, he warns, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Students who write careful, cautious, timid papers in an attempt to appease the anger of the arbitrary...

...the northern pan of Phrygia Paroreios (the territory lying north and 16. Cf. RW Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines" ("Essay on Self- Reliance", in Essays, Lectures and Orations [London, 1848], p. 30). See also FJ Foakes-Jackson,...

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