They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." 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... Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 52by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...conduct, not the custom of others, but what is right in his own eyes. " Good and bad," says he, " are but names very readily transferable to that or this ;...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 pages
...will live then from the devil." 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 6. Would one necessarily be made better by living alone ? What kind of liberty does one give up in... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 pages
...will live then from the devil." 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 ;...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 pages
...conduct, not the custom of others, but what is right in his own eyes. " Good and bad," says he, " are but names very readily transferable to that or this ;...constitution, the only wrong what is against it." This doctrine (though true) is liable to much misinterpretation ; especially in the vague and paradoxical... | |
| 1844 - 118 pages
...relative degrees of good and evil derive their classification from this source. " Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this, the...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 pages
...relative degrees of good and evil derive their classification from this source. " Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this, the...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 pages
...will live then from the devil!' 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...constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it." . . . . " Perhaps, if we should meet Shnkspcare, we should not be conscious of any steep inferiority... | |
| 1844 - 638 pages
...live then from the devil !' No law can he 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 rny constitution ; the only wron?, what is against it." . . . . " Perhaps, if we should meet Shnkspeare,... | |
| 1851 - 650 pages
...exists. " No law," writes Emerson, " can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ;...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 - 564 pages
...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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