 In all my lectures I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man. This the people accept readily enough, and even with commendation, as long as I call the lecture Art or Politics, or Literature or the Household; but the moment...  A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 320by James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 809 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Rounseville Alger - Future life - 1889 - 856 pages
...the meaning of infinity without recognizing its immortality. " In all my lectures," Emerson wrote, " I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man." Also Saint Thomas, one of the greatest among the supreme thinkers, says, " In that manner wherein our... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - Fiction - 1898 - 276 pages
...and 1875. They are in everybody's hands and in everybody's thoughts. In 1840 he wrote in his diary: " In all my lectures I have taught one doctrine, namely,...This the people accept readily enough, and even with commendation, as long as I call the lecture Art or Politics, or Literature or the Household ; but the... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - Literature - 1898 - 264 pages
...and 1875. They are in everybody's hands and in everybody's thoughts. In 1840 he wrote in his diary: " In all my lectures I have taught one doctrine, namely,...This the people accept readily enough, and even with commendation, as long as I call the lecture Art or Politics, or Literature or the Household; but the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Authors, American - 1911 - 614 pages
...this growing inclination in all persons who aim to speak the truth, for manual labor and the farm.1 In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely,...This the people accept readily enough, and even with i Here follow passages printed in " Man the Reformer" (Nature, Addresses, and Lectures, pp. 233, 238).... | |
 | John Burroughs - Authors, American - 1922 - 324 pages
...others. Whatever he called it, his theme, as he himself confesses, was always fundamentally the same: " In all my lectures I have taught one doctrine, namely,...the people accept readily enough and even with loud commendations as long as I call the lecture Art or Politics, or Literature, or the Household, but the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Quotations, American - 1924 - 152 pages
...words, "the tyranny of the masses." He was all for the individual, and wrote in his diary in 1840, "In my lectures I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man." Emerson's goal was personal liberty; his gospel, the self-sufficiency of the individual; his philosophy,... | |
 | American essays - 1897 - 902 pages
...1875. They are in everybody's hands and in everybody's thoughts. In 1840 he wrote in his diary : " In all my lectures I have taught one doctrine, namely,...This the people accept readily enough, and even with commendation, as long as I call the lecture Art or Politics, or Literature or the Household ; but the... | |
 | Cornel West - Philosophy - 1989 - 292 pages
...rest upon a theological foundation. Rather it is the starting point and ultimate aim of his project. In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man..65 Yet most Emerson scholars have given him too much of the benefit of the doubt regarding just... | |
 | John P. Diggins - History - 1994 - 548 pages
...advocated a solitary stance against the tyranny of the social. "In all of my lectures," wrote Emerson, "I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man." Moreover, as Santayana observed, there are philosophical reasons why pragmatism may be seen as departing... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - Literary Collections - 1998 - 244 pages
...and 1875. They are in everybody's hands and in everybody's thoughts. In 1840 he wrote in his diary: "In all my lectures I have taught one doctrine, namely,...This the people accept readily enough, and even with commendation, as long as I call the lecture Art or Politics, or Literature or the Household; but the... | |
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