 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
 | Joseph Cook - 1880 - 304 pages
...child, I will live from the devil. Good and bad are names very readily transferable to this or that. The only right is what is after my constitution, the...wrong, what is against it. A man is to carry himself, iu the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." 6. "One man... | |
 | George Claude Lorimer - 1881 - 388 pages
...I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such, but if I am the devil's child I will live, then, for the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature.'" The tendency of such sentiments as these, and they are creeping into our literature more... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," 5 because the mind is ,the descending Spirit. " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature," 6 because it is the law pf the Over1 Society and Solitude, p. 274. a Essays, first series, p. 249.... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 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 wrffRg what is against it." "Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...above." I replied : 'They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live dy. We shall still postpone our existence, nor take...that incites us. We have not yet served up to it. everything were titular and ephemeral but him. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." N0.Iaw can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and...names very readily transferable to that or this ; the onlv_righi ISL what is after my constitution ; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 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 that of my nature. Good and bad are T)ut names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution... | |
 | Ernest Chesneau - 1885 - 402 pages
...which he maintained by self-reliance. Aptly does he illustrate the American philosopher's words : " A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." Learn all you can from the past, and forget it — this... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1886 - 806 pages
...nature-god, of whom I am a part, an incarnation). " The highest virtue is always against the law." " Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...my constitution; the only wrong, what is against it .... if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." " In self-trust all the virtues are... | |
 | 1886 - 436 pages
...belong." Furthermore, as to morals, " Nothing at last is sacred but the integrity of your own mind." "Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...constitution, the only wrong what is against it." Carlyle, witnessing this soaring away from nature, under the plea of trusting nature, in Emerson, and... | |
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