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. Essays - Página 48por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 270 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 páginas
...Good and bad," says he, " 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." This doctrine (though true) is liable to much misinterpretation; especially in the vague and paradoxical... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 páginas
...is meant by : " Absolve you to yourself " ? Ought we to care for the opinion of others ? Why is E. only wrong what is against it. A man is to 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... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 páginas
...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...if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he." — p. 50. And, again, " Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule.... | |
| 1841 - 640 páginas
...Good and bad," says he, " 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." This doctrine (though true) is liable to much misinterpretation ; especially in the vague and paradoxical... | |
| 1844 - 112 páginas
...this source. " 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."* A philosophical and true standard of right and wrong, good and evil, to which every action may be referred,... | |
| Human nature - 1844 - 116 páginas
...this source. " 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."* A philosophical and true standard of right and wrong, good and evil, to which every action may be referred,... | |
| 1844 - 648 páginas
...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." . . . . " Perhaps, if we should meet Shnkspcare, we should not be conscious of any steep inferiority... | |
| 1851 - 650 páginas
...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."f There are occasional irreverences in the writings of Emerson to which we decidedly object, and... | |
| 1848 - 1292 páginas
...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...thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed hoV easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. Every decent... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 páginas
...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...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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