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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. "
Twelve Essays - Page 43
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pages
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The Monthly magazine

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...
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...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...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...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 11

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 pages
...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...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....
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The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register

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...
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 15

1844 - 648 pages
...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 me but...constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it." . . . . " Perhaps, if we should meet Shnkspcare, we should not be conscious of any steep inferiority...
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Human Nature: A Philosophical Exposition of the Divine Institution of Reward ...

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,...
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Human nature, a philosophical exposition of the divine institution of reward ...

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,...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 15

1844 - 638 pages
...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...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,...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 54

1851 - 650 pages
...authority above his own nature, simply because no such authority exists. " No law," writes Emerson, " can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and...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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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 584 pages
...such ; but if I am the devil's child, I will live from the devil. No law is sacred to roe 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."...
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