... interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness.... Essays - 第 49 頁Ralph Waldo Emerson 著 - 1841 - 371 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Donald Capps - 1995 - 212 頁
...he does not court you.7 In contrast, says Emerson, "the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality!"8 Here Emerson, himself deprived as a boy of love and affection by Calvinistic parents... | |
| Stanley Cavell - 1996 - 278 頁
...verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected,... | |
| Morris Dickstein - 1998 - 468 頁
...it to anyone else? What happens when you do? To recall Emerson, "As soon as [the selfreliant person] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person" — one who has thereby devised only another prison for himself— "watched by the sympathy or the... | |
| Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 頁
...verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected,... | |
| 2002 - 328 頁
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