Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with... The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Página 45de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Donald E. Pease - 1994 - 356 páginas
...flashes across" our minds, because otherwise those thoughts will be taken away from us, since "tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...to take with shame our own opinion from another." ln fact, according to Emerson, "ln every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they... | |
| Craig Hickman, Craig Bott, Marlon Berrett, Brad Angus - 1996 - 240 páginas
...us in his essay "Self-Reliance," "There is a time in every man's [woman's] education when he [she] arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; the he [she] must take himself [herself] for better, for worse, as his [her] portion; that though the... | |
| Thomas Frank - 1997 - 340 páginas
...any other document of the decade." chapter four THREE REBELS: ADVERTISING NARRATIVES OF THE SIXTIES There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion. Insist on yourself. Never imitate. . . . Society everywhere is in a conspiracy... | |
| Thomas Frank - 1997 - 336 páginas
...any other document of the decade." chapter four THREE REBELS: ADVERTISING NARRATIVES OF THE SIXTIES There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suiciae, that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion. Insist on yourself. Never imitate.... | |
| Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 páginas
...origin of self-possessed subjectivity, the moment when every man must take himself as his portion: "There is a time in every man's education when he...arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion: that though the wide universe is full of... | |
| Anne Ruggles Gere - 1997 - 394 páginas
...of a white middle-class group that had been reading Emerson. "Objection was raised to the statement 'There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide.' Other truths came up for discussion and were thrown in new lights."61 On... | |
| Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 páginas
...self-reliance. "There is a time in every man's education," he writes in his essay "Self-Reliance," "when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide" (W, 2: 46). As Porter suggests, we should not be surprised that he shows "little patience with the... | |
| 李翠亭, 李正栓 - 1998 - 264 páginas
...yourself at least five reasons that the author gives ? 52* for going to live in the woods Passage 9 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide t that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion... Trust thy self; every heart vibrates... | |
| Bruce Jenner - 1999 - 280 páginas
...inferiority, and you're sentencing yourself to failure and eventual shame. As Emerson wrote: "Tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...to take with shame our own opinion from another." Author Erskine Caldwell saw the gleam of light at twenty-six so strongly that he quit his stable newspaper... | |
| Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 páginas
...New England; writers began to adopt Emerson's ideas. Let's look at these two works now. Self-Reliance "There is a time in every man's education when he...that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide." —from "Self-Reliance" This essay further elaborates on the familiar Emersonian thesis— Trust thyself... | |
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