 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...we value total powers and effects — as, the impression, the quality, the spirit of men and things. A MAN is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition...if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. "THE prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower, kneeling with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names...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 - one part of it by itself.... | |
 | 1860 - 708 pages
...sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names readily transferable to this or that ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it." A little after he says, " I suppose no man can violate his nature." Now, we... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.' No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names...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... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...such ; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names...thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. Every... | |
 | William Crary Brownell - 1909 - 572 pages
...me but that of my own nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to this or that; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it." IV It would, indeed, be hardly too fanciful to find Emerson's philosophy very considerably derived... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names...wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in^the presenci of all opposition, as if every thing were titular and ephemera but he. I am ashamed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of ic my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily...carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral3 but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we is capitulate to... | |
 | 1904 - 1036 pages
...integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself and you shall have the suffrage of the world. ... A man is to 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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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. 
