 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
 | Tony Tanner - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 292 pages
...will suggest how radically different was the American Romantic's attitude towards memory and the past. 'But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory . . ?'; 'In nature every moment is new; the past is swallowed and forgotten;... | |
 | Donald Capps - Religion - 1993 - 198 pages
...York: Vintage Books, 1979), 193. 130 on the basis of these earlier actions. But why, Emerson asks, "should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict [something] you have stated in this or that public place?"... | |
 | Graham Parkes - Philosophy - 1994 - 514 pages
...reticent to the point of silence on the topic of myth. Ill Struggles for Multiple Vision (i872-i877) 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. Emerson,... | |
 | Richard G. Geldard - God in literature - 1999 - 200 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... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - Philosophy - 1999 - 350 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 in this or that public place? Suppose... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 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?...Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? . . . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers... | |
 | David Wittenberg - Philosophy - 2002 - 300 pages
...erstwhile opinions. A demand for creation, for the new, is asserted over and against any repetition: Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?...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. . .. Speak... | |
 | Frank Mehring - Nature in literature - 2001 - 194 pages
...Charakteristikum der nach Unabhängigkeit strebenden literarischen Welt um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhundert. „But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory ...?"; „In nature every moment is new; the past is swallowed and forgotten;... | |
 | Roy Lilley - Business & Economics - 2002 - 212 pages
...sure? Try this: Why do we go on dragging around this corpse of memory? Emerson And what about this: It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone, but to bring the past to judgement into the thousand-eyed present and live ever in the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Literary Collections - 2004 - 256 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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