| American essays - 1906 - 894 pages
...He is going to do something without a precedent, something that will never have an imitator, — " Je veux montrer à mes semblables un homme dans toute...vérité de la nature, et cet homme, ce sera moi." Perhaps his partial attainment of this rare feat is what led George Eliot to tell Emerson that her... | |
| American essays - 1909 - 900 pages
...reveal him ? When we ask this question we plunge at once into obscure deeps. Rousseau imagined that, " Je forme une entreprise qui n'eut jamais d'exemple, et dont l'exécution n'aura point d'imitateur." Both statements we now know to be rhetorical rather than true, for Rousseau had notable examples and... | |
| Printing - 1933 - 826 pages
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