 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.  The Monthly magazine - Page 485by Monthly literary register - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...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...and names, to large societies and dead institutions. <I Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right. I ought to go upright,... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing .n? 154 SELF-RELIANCE were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate... | |
 | Ulysses Grant King - 1921 - 302 pages
...to me, but that of my nature. Good and bad are names very readily transferable to that or this, — the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it." Jesus "overcome the world," which refers to the sexual, because, it is the only thing he did overcome,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...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 is what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...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 ;...against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence 5 of all opposition, as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how... | |
 | Joseph Morris Thomas, Frederick Alexander Manchester, Frank William Scott - 1922 - 614 pages
...resulting loss to the world of every absolute standard? Thus with the strange saying of Emerson's that "the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it": what if all the world acted upon this idea? To ask the question and to reflect on the answer is to... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1922 - 516 pages
...in me, or wholly reject, and on his word or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing. The only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it. So of everything that tends to limit us, and that keeps us from trusting to... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...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 ;...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... | |
 | Ludwig Lewisohn - 1924 - 228 pages
...Protestant himself : "Good and MORAL WORLD 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." The history of human conduct bears out Emerson's saying in a very practical and objective way, so that... | |
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