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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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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 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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Century Readings for a Course in American Literature

Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 1086 pages
...independent, genuine verdict, titular and ephemeral but he. I am You must court him ; he does not court ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies their living in the world, — as invalids and dead institutions. Every decent and and the insane pay...
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The Bookman, Volume 59

1924 - 1042 pages
...fret. He has the serenity of the victor. These base things will pass away, but his ideas are eternal. "A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." And that is why Mr. Emerson is the popular leader of...
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The Creative Life

Ludwig Lewisohn - 1924 - 228 pages
..."Good and MORAL WORLD 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." The history of human conduct bears out Emerson's saying in a very practical and objective way, so that...
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The Essential American Tradition: An Anthology of Striking and Significant ...

Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 360 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 him. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges...
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English Review Grammar

Walter Kay Smart - 1925 - 280 pages
...(Stevenson.) 23. But, to tell the truth, there was never a hint of any break in their domestic harmony. 24. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names. (Emerson.) EXERCISE 46 Point out the adverbs — single words, phrases, and clauses; tell what they...
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American Literature

Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is mage, almsgiving, ablution, and war against infidels....key of Daoud, or David, transmitted to the prophet. nstitutions. Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right. I ought...
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...transferable to~%hat or this ; the i only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong I what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence i of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but him. I_am_ashamcd to think; hnw...
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Forty Immortals

Benjamin De Casseres - 1926 - 350 pages
...Charta of Self. "Good or bad are but names readily transferable to this or that; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it." Morals are local; a cussword current in New York is counterfeit in Timbuctoo. Our boasted virtues are...
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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...or this; the only right is what is after ly constitution; the only wrong what is against it. A lan is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if rery thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ihamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges...
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