Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with... The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 45by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
| Joann Prosyniuk - 1991 - 496 pages
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| Joann Prosyniuk - 1992 - 496 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1989 - 450 pages
...teach you. 7. Luke 9:53. 8. Mark 8:36-37. 9. George Herbert, "The Elixir," lines 1-4, 13-16. 10. Cf. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction . . . that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion" ("Self-Reliance," CW 2:27-28). See also... | |
| Edward Renehan - 1992 - 392 pages
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| Thomas J. Scheff - 1990 - 231 pages
...good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...take with shame our own opinion from another. There are several important ideas in this passage, but they are not developed by Emerson, only mentioned... | |
| David Bromwich - 1994 - 284 pages
...good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. Few and... | |
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