 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 - Сторінка 485автори: Monthly literary register - 1841Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 стор.
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 стор.
...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...societies and dead institutions. Every decent and well«/ spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right. I ought to go upright and vital,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 стор.
...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...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 стор.
...his own eyes. " 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... | |
 | Human nature - 1844 - 116 стор.
...classification from 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 - 118 стор.
...classification from 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 стор.
...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." . . . . " Perhaps, if we should meet Shnkspcare, we should not be conscious of any steep inferiority... | |
 | 1851 - 650 стор.
...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."f There are occasional irreverences in the writings of Emerson to which we decidedly object, and... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 584 стор.
...roe but the law of my 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 is what is against it." — Essays, 1841, pp. 41, 42. " That which I call right or goodness is the... | |
 | 1845 - 564 стор.
...me but the law of my 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 is what is against it." — Essays, 1841, pp. 41, 42. " That which I call right or goodness is the... | |
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