Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely... Select Essays and Poems - Página 19por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 páginas
...mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ?... | |
| Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 420 páginas
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ?... | |
| Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 páginas
...other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them s» s» <I But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your... | |
| James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 páginas
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your... | |
| Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 530 páginas
...own ideas on consistency. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat...Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then ? . . . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers... | |
| Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 páginas
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 páginas
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or Athat public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 páginas
...themselves. But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force...your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ?... | |
| Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 522 páginas
...terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word. . . . But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose... | |
| University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 páginas
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose... | |
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