 ... 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
 | Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey - 2007 - 210 páginas
...quotes from the fifth paragraph of 'Self-Reliance': 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. [Emerson, in Cavell, IQO, p. 1 19] To live my life not for a spectacle but to live it for itself, does... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 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,... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 430 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 lose all pledges and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected,... | |
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