 But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that 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 any thing as...  Beulah: A Novel - Page 270by Augusta Jane Evans - 1898 - 492 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...selfishness and sin itself ; so that no evil is pure, nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions. But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head...discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred ; none are profane ; I... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1886 - 34 pages
...with contradictory opinions bearing on the same subject, will get no satisfaction. " Let me remind you that I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least...as true or false. I unsettle all things ; no facts to me are sacred, none profane. I simply experiment, — an endless Seeker, with no Past at my back."... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1887 - 284 pages
...as they liberate us, and we undo their work in courting their tyranny. The passage runs thus: — " Let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter....as 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!... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...selfishness and sin itself ; so that no evil is pure, nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions. But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head...discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred ; none are profane ; I... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 572 pages
...intended to be systematic. He claimed to be a seer, not an architect. He himself warns us not to ' set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit to what I do not, as if I pretended to settle anything true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts... | |
 | 1888 - 1004 pages
...not intended to be systematic. He claimed to be a seer, not an architect. He himself warns us not to "set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit to what I do not, as if I pretended to settle anything true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Johnson Woodbury - 1890 - 206 pages
...Farthermore, he advertises of himself: " But lest I would mislead any, when I have my own head and obey my own whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an...what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not do, as if I pretended to settle anything as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 606 pages
...regard to "Circles," the essay which follows "The Over-Soul." "I am not careful to justify myself. . . . But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head...experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, 01? the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle anything as true or false. I... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
...regard to "Circles," the essay which follows "The Over-Soul." "I am not careful to justify myself. . . . But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head...experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, OP the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle anything as true or false. I unsettle... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...Over-Soul." "I am not careful to justify myself. . . . But lest I should mislead any when I have iny own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader...experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, OP the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle anything as true or false. I unsettle... | |
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