 ... interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness....  Essays - Página 49por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Morris Dickstein - 1998 - 468 páginas
...it to anyone else? What happens when you do? To recall Emerson, "As soon as [the selfreliant person] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person" — one who has thereby devised only another prison for himself— "watched by the sympathy or the... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 páginas
...verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected,... | |
 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 páginas
...the Perverse." In his fifth paragraph, Emerson says: "The man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this." The idea is that we have become permanently and unforgettably visible to one another, in a state of... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - 2003 - 262 páginas
...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympatliy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no... | |
 | Richard Poirier - 2003 - 334 páginas
...times, he is close to saying that the best, perhaps only way to do this, is to keep your mouth shut. "As soon as he has once acted or spoken with e'clat," he warns in the essay "SelfReliance," he is "a committed person." That is, he is sentenced to a jailhouse... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 páginas
...verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected,... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 484 páginas
...bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome ... But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...whose affections must now enter into his account... Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! ... He would utter opinions on all passing affairs,... | |
 | Carl J. Richard - 2004 - 396 páginas
.... . .You must court him; he will not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter his account. . . . Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of its members. . . . Whoso... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 páginas
...interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interest; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must...observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable, must always engage the poet's... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 páginas
...verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected,... | |
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