 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 - Page 19by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 574 pages
...of Emerson's.,-" },' Page 75, note 2. " But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? ... It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. ...... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Birthday books - 1906 - 200 pages
...property, on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading. IT seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your...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. and punishment... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit 5 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...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 ?... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 540 pages
...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 - 1912 - 314 pages
...have no 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 - Character - 1911 - 148 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit3 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 15 somewhat4 you have stated in this or that public place?... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - English language - 1913 - 512 pages
...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... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - Education, Higher - 1914 - 568 pages
...have no other date 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 - 1915 - 200 pages
...our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. 30 But why should you keep )'our head over your shoulder? Why drag about this monstrous...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever 5 in a new day. Trust... | |
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