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 - Página 485por Monthly literary register - 1841Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1909 - 1036 páginas
...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." Ill IT would indeed be hardly too fanciful to find Emerson's philosophy very considerably derived from... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 páginas
...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 - 1888 - 408 páginas
...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...to carry himself in the presence of all opposition ^s if every thing were titular and ephemeral but neT I am ashamed bo ^ VJ3U- .to think how easily we... | |
| J. Morrison-Fuller, Walter C. Rose - 1890 - 526 páginas
...to me but that of my nature. Good and lad aro hut 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 everything... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 páginas
...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 ephemeral3 but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
| 1896 - 374 páginas
...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 ephemeral3 but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
| 1896 - 234 páginas
...that he will not violate his own constitution, which ordains that he shall act fully and freely. " The only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong what is against it." He must account to himself for everything, must absolve himself to himself. The law of his action is... | |
| John Burroughs - 1896 - 292 páginas
...and knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists." "A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." "Great works of art," he again says, "teach us to abide... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 páginas
...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... | |
| 1897 - 586 páginas
...faith. " Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul ; unbelief in denying them. " " The only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong what is against it. " So said Emerson, and in the same strain Dr. Martineau : "If to rest on authority is to mean an acceptance... | |
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