 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.  To-day - Page 106edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1903 - 468 pages
...doubt, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it not. . . . Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the...right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. ... We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...live then from the Devil. " 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...right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...will live then from the devil.' 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...right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is diyine. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ;...is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were... | |
 | Oscar Lovell Triggs - 1905 - 312 pages
...general would adopt the saying of Emerson : "Virtue is the adherence in action to the nature of things: The only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it." And if the retort be made : "These impulses may be from below," Whitman would respond as cheerfully... | |
 | 1860 - 708 pages
...sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names readily transferable to this or that ; " sliver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want! F little after he says, " I suppose no man can violate his nature." Now, we know that strange things... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...will live then from the Devil." 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 5 constitution ; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - 1907 - 252 pages
...man obeys his constitution, he will be in the right. Here is Emerson's only sanction of morality ; " the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it." A man cannot violate his own nature, in any case ; but error lies in setting up... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 pages
...will live then from the devil." 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...right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...will live then from the devil." 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...right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were... | |
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