 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.  To-day - Page 106edited by - 1890Full 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 ;...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 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 ;...right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were... | |
 | 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 ;...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... | |
 | 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 ;...right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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 ;...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... | |
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