szaroczek
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Hello everybody. I see you haven't band me yet! That too bad for you then... :-D So I'm back again with some more of R.W Emerson's "Self-Reliance" stuff... Now, at some point Emerson is preaching man shouldn't look so much backwards or to the future but should live his presence and enjoy it. Then he follows with such a statement:
"This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul."
Friends, I really don't know where to bite this second sentence of the quotation. What I get of is:
1. That first "yet" suggests Emerson is giving some negative example of what he believed was the right stance.
2. Those "strong intellects" (whoever they might be) despite of being bed example DO hear God himself.
3. David, Jeremiah and Paul are (in my sensation) persons to whom one should NOT refer when conveying God's words.
Questions:
1. What precisely does Emerson say in this sentence; could you write it in another, clear way?
2. Who is in your opinion that "he" who "speaks phraseology" - God or the "strong intellects"?
3. Why this "he" "speak", not "speaks"? (I mean why there is no suffix "-s" like the proper third sing. case of the verb should have?)
Thank you ;-)
"This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul."
Friends, I really don't know where to bite this second sentence of the quotation. What I get of is:
1. That first "yet" suggests Emerson is giving some negative example of what he believed was the right stance.
2. Those "strong intellects" (whoever they might be) despite of being bed example DO hear God himself.
3. David, Jeremiah and Paul are (in my sensation) persons to whom one should NOT refer when conveying God's words.
Questions:
1. What precisely does Emerson say in this sentence; could you write it in another, clear way?
2. Who is in your opinion that "he" who "speaks phraseology" - God or the "strong intellects"?
3. Why this "he" "speak", not "speaks"? (I mean why there is no suffix "-s" like the proper third sing. case of the verb should have?)
Thank you ;-)