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" 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 19
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pages
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1924 - 460 pages
...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...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...
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My Little Book of Emerson: Being an Introd. to Emerson and a Breviary of His ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Quotations, American - 1924 - 152 pages
...has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere - FROM ALI BEN ABU TALEB But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? . . . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1924 - 446 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 ? Suppose...
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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...keep your head over your shoulder? iVhy drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you ;ontradlct somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself, what :hen? It seems to be_a rule of wisdom never to rely on ^our memory aloneTscarcely even in acts of pure...
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American Literature

Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them. Bur provement, to corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose...
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1926 - 412 pages
...other datafor computing than our ast, anf" find "m " nilith Tfl Pie"nr"iriT P'VPS of ot i . But wny 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? Siipnpse...
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The Frontier in American Literature

Lucy Lockwood Hazard - American literature - 1927 - 344 pages
...Emerson insisted that man should be independent even of his own past acts and words. "Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat...Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?" With the same consummate nonchalance, Whitman says: Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict...
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A Book of American Literature

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...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 so in this or that public place?...
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The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: First Series. Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1979 - 434 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? Suppose...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy - 1983 - 1196 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? Suppose...
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