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" 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. "
Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 52
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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Readings from American Literature: A Textbook for Schools and Colleges

Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 pages
...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...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...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...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. A man is to carry him- 25 self in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he....
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Essays for College English

James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...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...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...
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An American Bible

Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...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...and names, to large societies and dead institutions. <I Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right. I ought to go upright,...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 pages
...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...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...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing .n? 154 SELF-RELIANCE were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate...
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Mental Evolution

Ulysses Grant King - 1921 - 302 pages
...my nature. Good and bad are names very readily transferable to that or this, — the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it." Jesus "overcome the world," which refers to the sexual, because, it is the only thing he did overcome,...
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Select Essays and Addresses, Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...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...against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence 5 of all opposition, as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how...
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Composition for College Students

Joseph Morris Thomas, Frederick Alexander Manchester, Frank William Scott - 1922 - 614 pages
...world of every absolute standard? Thus with the strange saying of Emerson's that "the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it": what if all the world acted upon this idea? To ask the question and to reflect on the answer is to...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays for First-year Students Selected by the ...

University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...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...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...
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