 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
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...into Adams' eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient worship. We worship it today, because it is not of today. We...immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person. <II hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted... | |
 | Arthur Harrison Miller - 1920 - 200 pages
...others. To revert again to the words of Emerson: "Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day,...self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree." It is an inherent quality in every normal, un vitiated mind. CHAPTER III THE LEADER AND THE SOLDIER... | |
 | Bunford Samuel - 1920 - 416 pages
...speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. ... I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be ... ridiculous henceforward.' This is not meant for mere theory. We are told often that 'Virtue is... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adam's eye. Honor is venerable to us, because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day,...trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self -derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person. I hope... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 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 today because...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... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1927 - 604 pages
...Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. . . . I hope in these days we have heard the 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... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 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 today because...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... | |
 | United States Naval Institute - 1925 - 234 pages
...integrity and worth. In the words of Emerson : " Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day,...self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree." We must not be discouraged in the thought that we do not possess all of the sixteen points of leadership... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera. we gazetted and ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the... | |
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