 So that, in the present droll posture of my affairs, when I see myself suddenly raised into the importance of a heretic, I am very uneasy when I advert to the supposed duties of such a personage, who is to make good his thesis against all comers. "I certainly...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 6201882Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1914 - 592 lehte
...disposition to depart from my habitual contentment, that you should say your thought, whilst I say mine. I certainly shall do no such thing. I shall read what...always done, — glad when you speak my thoughts, and I believe I must tell you what I think of my new position. It strikes me very oddly, that good and... | |
 | Oscar W. Firkins - 1915 - 404 lehte
...importance of a heretic, I am very uneasy when I advert to the supposed duties of such a personage, who is to make good his thesis against all comers. I certainly...before, seeing whatever I can, and telling what I see; and, I suppose, with the same fortune that has hitherto attended me, — the joy of finding that my... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 528 lehte
...uneasy when I advert to the supposed duties of such a personage, who is to make good his thesisxigainst all comers. I certainly shall do no such thing. I...before, seeing whatever I can, and telling what I see; and, I suppose, with the same fortune that has hitherto attended me ; the joy of finding, that my abler... | |
 | Mary Hosmer Brown - 1926 - 138 lehte
...importance of a heretic, I am very uneasy when I advert to the supposed duties of such a personage, who is to make good his thesis against all comers. I certainly...when you speak my thoughts, and skipping the page which has nothing for me. I shall go on, just as before, seeing whatever I can, and telling what I... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 lehte
...very uneasy when I advert to the supposa duties of such a personage, who is expected to make good hi thesis against all comers. I certainly shall do no such thing. I shall read what yoi and other good men write, as I have always done, — gla< when you speak my thought, and skipping... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1882 - 378 lehte
...importance of a heretic, I am very uneasy when I advert to the supposed duties of such a personage, who is to make good his thesis against all comers. I certainly...write, as I have always done, glad when you speak my thoughts,and skipping the page that has nothing for me. I shall go on just as before, seeing whatever... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1939 - 660 lehte
...advert to the supposed duties of such a personage, who is to make good his thesis against all corners. I certainly shall do no such thing. I shall read what...before, seeing whatever I can, and telling what I see; and, I suppose, with the same fortune that has hitherto attended me; the joy of finding, that my abler... | |
 | Joel Myerson - 1999 - 484 lehte
...importance of a heretic, I am very uneasy when I advert to the supposed duties of such a personage, who is to make good his thesis against all comers. I certainly...before, seeing whatever I can, and telling what I see; and, I suppose, with the same fortune 191 that has hitherto attended me; the joy of finding, that my... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2002 - 457 lehte
...importance of a heretic, I am very uneasy when I advert to the supposed duties of such a personage, who is to make good his thesis against all comers. I certainly...has nothing for me. I shall go on just as before, teeing whatever I can, and telling what I see ; and, I suppose, with the same fortune that has hitherto... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 lehte
...declining all argument: "I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought." "I shall go on just as before, seeing whatever I can, and telling what I see." When the orthodox thus pressed the attack, and Emerson withstood it without retraction, the breach... | |
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