 | Melvin J. Lasky - 506 sivua
...king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience.... "I have no expectation that any man will read history...has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.. ..He will see how deep is the chain of affinity," Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)1 "Only superficial things... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 sivua
...history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. ... I have no expectation that any man will read history...has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day" (E, 239). These demands end by privileging the present moment to such a degree that, paradoxically,... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 2003 - 276 sivua
...— than has so far proven the case. At present I will be content with four citations from "History": I have no expectation that any man will read history...has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day. But along with the civil and metaphysical history of man, another history goes daily forward — that... | |
 | David Harris - 2000 - 664 sivua
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 | Lawrence Buell - 2004 - 420 sivua
...The student is "to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary." Nobody will get anywhere "who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by...has any deeper sense than what he is doing today" (^2: 5). More than any other major writer, Emerson invites you to kill him off if you don't find him... | |
 | Arthur Weigall - 2003 - 500 sivua
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 sivua
...compelled, the Muse of history will utter oracles, as never to those who do not respect themselves. I have no expectation that any man will read history...has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day. The world exists for the education of each man. There is no age or state of society or mode of action... | |
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I have no expectation that any man will read history aright, who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today. 
