 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...enunciation of this principle, wholly owe their origin to his peculiar phraseology. Thus he says, " No law can be sacred to me, but that of my nature." Now there has been such a vast clatter made concerning the light of nature, and natural reason, that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil."...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
...impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil."...against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 pages
...impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil."...against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he." — p. 50. And, again, " Virtues... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...not from above." I replied, ' They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, 1 will live then from the devil.' No law can be sacred...against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how -easily... | |
 | 1841 - 640 pages
...enunciation of this principle, wholly owe their origin to his peculiar phraseology. Thus he says, " No law can be sacred to me, but that of my nature." Now there has been such a vast clatter made concerning the light of nature, and natural reason, that... | |
 | 1844 - 648 pages
...not from above ;' I replied : ' They do not seem to me to be such, but if I am the devil's child, J will live then from the devil!' No law can be sacred...constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it." . . . . " Perhaps, if we should meet Shnkspcare, we should not be conscious of any steep inferiority... | |
 | Human nature - 1844 - 116 pages
...in its place. All relative degrees of good and evil derive their classification from this source. " Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...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 pages
...in its place. All relative degrees of good and evil derive their classification from this source. " Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...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 - 638 pages
...may be from ie.rou!, not from above ;' I replied : ' 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 he sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that... | |
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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. 
