No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this: the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. Essays: First Series - Page 48by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 322 pagesFull view - About this book
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...Good and bad," says he, " are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it." This doctrine (though true) is liable to much misinterpretation; especially in the vague and paradoxical... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...is meant by : " Absolve you to yourself " ? Ought we to care for the opinion of others ? Why is E. only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...of my nature. Good and bad are but names, very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what...societies and dead institutions. Every decent and well«/ spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right. I ought to go upright and vital,... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 pages
...of my nature. Good and bad are but names, very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what...if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he." — p. 50. And, again, " Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule.... | |
| 1841 - 640 pages
...Good and bad," says he, " are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it." This doctrine (though true) is liable to much misinterpretation ; especially in the vague and paradoxical... | |
| 1844 - 112 pages
...this source. " Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this, the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it."* A philosophical and true standard of right and wrong, good and evil, to which every action may be referred,... | |
| Human nature - 1844 - 116 pages
...this source. " Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this, the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it."* A philosophical and true standard of right and wrong, good and evil, to which every action may be referred,... | |
| 1844 - 648 pages
...of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it." . . . . " Perhaps, if we should meet Shnkspcare, we should not be conscious of any steep inferiority... | |
| 1851 - 650 pages
...of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it."f There are occasional irreverences in the writings of Emerson to which we decidedly object, and... | |
| 1848 - 1292 pages
...of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what...thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed hoV easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. Every decent... | |
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