 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...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 tiii - ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...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...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 - 324 pages
...devil's child, 1 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...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 we capitulate to badges... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 pages
...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...carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he." — p. 50. And, again, " Virtues are, in the popular... | |
 | 1841 - 640 pages
...of 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...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 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 - 648 pages
...devil's child, J 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...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
...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 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
...because no such authority exists. " No law," writes Emerson, " can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...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... | |
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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... 
