 | Kit Bakke - 2006 - 284 pages
...was either satire or be drowned in sobs. Curiously yours, LM Alcott Being Transcendental A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm is the glory and hope of the world. A. Bronson Alcott January 14, 2006... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 pages
...principle is right, the details will take care of themselves. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821 ~ A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do ... Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Peter Holbrook - 2006 - 980 pages
...yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee" ("Self-Reliance" (1841), Selected Essays, 183). 21. In the present set of essays, for instance, Lars... | |
 | Daniel H. Nexon, Iver B. Neumann - 2006 - 262 pages
...Sport- War Intertext DAVID i ONKi Qnidditch . . . is a fictional sport. Al HUS DUMHIEDORI-: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. RAI I'll WAI DO EMERSON IN mis ciiAiMi.RI IXAMINL: IHL RELATIONSHIP of the game of Quidditch to the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 pages
...belongs to no other time or place, but is the centre of things. Where he is, there is nature. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds., adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the... | |
 | Ralph Keyes - 2007 - 416 pages
...oversimplified excerpt from Emerson's more nuanced thought in his 1841 essay "Self-Reliance": "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Verdict: Simplified Emerson. "CONTEMPT prior to investigation." This popular observation is widely... | |
 | James Brian Staab - 2006 - 416 pages
...Reserve University School of Law, Scalia took issue with Ralph Waldo Emerson's aphorism "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." In "Self-Reliance," Emerson contended that complexity is the mark of great souls. "With consistency... | |
 | Milton Birnbaum - 252 pages
...reader may expect quite regularly. In this respect, Huxley shares Emerson's belief that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Let us not add "educators" as well to this unholy Emersonian trinity. VII THE SOCIETAL SELF There are... | |
 | Andrew Epstein - 2006 - 376 pages
...truth a falsehood tomorrow, is the root of that "foolish consistency" Emerson famously castigates as the "hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines" (EL, 265). "Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?" Emerson asks, previewing Whitman's... | |
 | Bill Sanders, William Sanders - 2007 - 74 pages
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