 But these 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.' No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily...  Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 70by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 245 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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
...— " But these 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...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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 pages
..." But these 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...that or this ; the only 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
..." But these 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...that or this ; the only 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... | |
 | 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...that or this ; the only 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... | |
 | 1841 - 572 pages
...answer — the only one, indeed, which can be made with his premises — " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil;" (pp. 41, 42.) and the answer is proof enough that the rule, alone, cannot be a safe one. It makes,... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
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