It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of today. We love it and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown... The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 55by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...is not of to-day. We love it and pay it homiigo, because it is not a trap for our love and houiH|re, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore...last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gaEetled and ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us bear a whistle from the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day...and pay it homage, because it is not a trap for our Jove and homage, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree,... | |
| 1850 - 524 pages
...and denounce it as false and dangerous The essayist concludes this topic of coasistency thu*;> — " I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and coasistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous Imncefbrward. Iastead of the gong for dinner,... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adam's eye. Honour is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day,...last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 354 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day...last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 pages
...phenomenal ? Nay. As a great author says, " honour is venerable to us, because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day." Take the instance again of heroism; there is nothing more common, more vulgar, more appropriate even... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day...last of conformity and Consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the... | |
| 1872 - 556 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adam's eye. Honour is venerable to us, because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day,...last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted, and ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day...last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the goug for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day...last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the... | |
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