 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1877 - 180 pages
...they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph did his coat in the house of the harlot, and flee. "A foolish consistency is...nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now, in hard words : and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks,... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 370 pages
...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 " (EMEBSON, Essays, vol. ip £0). Whoever would come to the point of view from which all Emerson's... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 360 pages
...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 har'ot, and flee " (EMERSON, Essays, vol. ip 50). Whoever would come to the point of view from which... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 138 pages
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat, in the hand of the harlot, and nee."f Whoever would come to the point of view from which all Emerson's self-contradictions are reconciled... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 584 pages
...A general example of this quality may be found in the following passage from Emerson : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips. Sew them up with packthread — dp. Else, if you would... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...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...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul lias simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...perfect consistency is possible only to the narrowest mind and the feeblest understanding. ' A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips ! Sew them up with packthread, do. Else, if you would... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1879 - 178 pages
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and tiee."2 Whoever would come to the point of view from which all Emerson's self-contradictions are reconciled... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them with heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has little or nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them with 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 flea^, JjtA. foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers... | |
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. 
