Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause,... Essays: First Series - Página 92por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 333 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 páginas
...specific stripes may follow late after the offence, but they follow because they accompany it. Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit...pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means ind ends, seed and fruit, caunot be severed ; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end pre-exists... | |
| 1877 - 348 páginas
...that saying of Paul, " Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." Emerson says, " Crime and punishment grow out of one stem : punishment is a...within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it." In so far as penalty goes the truth of this is generally conceded ; it is not so commonly admitted... | |
| William Swinton - 1880 - 694 páginas
...they follow because they accompany it. Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Pun- 115 ishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower...end pre-exists in the means, the fruit in the seed. 9. Whilst thus the world will be whole, and refuses to be dis- «o parted, we seek to act partially,... | |
| 1909 - 752 páginas
...exemplifying so terribly the truth of Emerson's statement in his essay on Compensation: "Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit...within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it." Not only does the student of literature see life in all its aspects, but he sees nature as well. In... | |
| Pye Henry Chavasse - 1880 - 568 páginas
...had grown By what it fed on." — Shakspeare. How true and beautiful is the saying of Emerson, that " Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens within the flower of the pleasure that concealed it." 171. Let the pleasures of a newly-married wife, then, be dictated by reason, and... | |
| George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 páginas
...retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears. . . . Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit...Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, can not be severed ; for the effect always blooms in the cause, the end pre-exists in the means, the... | |
| George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 páginas
...concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, can not be severed ; for the effect always blooms in the cause, the end pre-exists in the means, the fruit in the seed. . . . Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things, profit out of profitable things, power out of strong... | |
| William Swinton - 1882 - 686 páginas
...they follow because they accompany it. Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Pun- ii5 ishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower...seed and fruit, cannot be severed ; for the effect aiready blooms in the cause, the end pre-exists in the means, the fruit in the seed. 9. Whilst thus... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 páginas
...retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears. . . . Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit...within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cnnse and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed ; for the effect already blooms... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 páginas
...specific stripes may follow late after the offence, but they follow because they accompany it. Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit...preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed. Whilst tlnis the world will be whole and refuses to be disparted, we seek to act partially, to sunder, to... | |
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