 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 43by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 564 pages
...such ; but if I am the devil's child, I will live from the devil. No law is sacred to me 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."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 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...carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
 | 1848 - 1292 pages
...that supported by physicians of high ' eminence in the old school. W. i! . No law can be sacred to rne but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names...thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed hoV easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. Every decent... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 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...carry himself in the presence, of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
 | 1848 - 596 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...constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it." . . . Thus, according to Mr Emerson, man is every thing ; all, and in all, at once the object of worship... | |
 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1850 - 450 pages
...seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, I * Essays, 1 Series, p. 259. will then live from the devil.' No law can be sacred to me, but that of my own nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is... | |
 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1850 - 578 pages
...seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, I * Essays, 1 Series, p. 259. will then live from the devil.' No law can be sacred to me, but that of my own nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is... | |
 | 1850 - 524 pages
...can be sacred to me but that of my own nature. ' Good and bad ' are names very readily traasferable to that or this : the only right is what is after my coastitution — the only wrong is what is agaiast it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...integrity of your own mind." " The virtue most in request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; from the devil." No law can be sacred to me but that...carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
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