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. Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - 第 52 頁Ralph Waldo Emerson 著 - 1883完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 頁
...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 頁
...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 頁
...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...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 頁
...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 頁
...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 頁
...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 - 112 頁
...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 頁
...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... | |
| 1848 - 1292 頁
...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 頁
...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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