 WHERE do we find ourselves ? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair ; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended ; there are stairs above us, many a one, which...  Impersonality– Seven Essays - 52 psl.autoriai: Sharon Cameron - 2009 - 272 psl.Ribota peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Frances Ilmberger, Alan Robinson - 2002 - 244 psl.
...essay when he describes human life and more generally culture as a staircase of history and destiny: "[T]here are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, ... which go upward and out of sight" (471). Every step of the staircase is a given historical moment,... | |
 | Swami Abhedananda - 2003 - 124 psl.
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 | Katherine Tingley - 2003 - 636 psl.
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 | E. D. Walker - 2003 - 400 psl.
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 | Jay Grossman - 2003 - 292 psl.
...places and the material texts that the activity of reading encompasses. The effect is almost Whitmanian. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs...us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight. (LAE 471) The image of stairs partially climbed, like the series of essays a reader has just begun... | |
 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 psl.
...is presenting a version or vision of the opening image of Emerson's "Experience," that of "find[ing] ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which...many a one, which go upward and out of sight." But perhaps I am counting on a prior connection I have urged that I can neither doubt nor prove, namely,... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 psl.
...Emerson opens. We are no longer ascending a hopeful ladder, but stranded on a mysterious staircase: "there are stairs below us, which we seem to have...us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight." Instead of grasping the poles of the universe, we are lodged in a series somewhere between extremes... | |
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