Why drag about this 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 even... The Lutheran Home Journal - Halaman 1791858Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 halaman
...the eyes of others 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 ?... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 halaman
...other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. 30 13. 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 ?... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 halaman
...reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit3 than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint...your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict 15 somewhat4 you have stated in this or that public place?... | |
| Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 halaman
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. 25 But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on 30 your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into... | |
| Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 halaman
...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 halaman
...Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency;...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 ?... | |
| Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 530 halaman
...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 halaman
...the eyes of others 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...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... | |
| Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 522 halaman
...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 halaman
...the eyes of others 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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