 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
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1909 - 1036 pages
...me but that of my own 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 what is against it." Ill IT would indeed be hardly too fanciful to find Emerson's philosophy very considerably derived from... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1884 - 610 pages
...such; hut 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 it what it after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 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...to carry himself in the presence of all opposition ^s if every thing were titular and ephemeral but neT I am ashamed bo ^ VJ3U- .to think how easily we... | |
 | J. Morrison-Fuller, Walter C. Rose - 1890 - 526 pages
...most be a non-conformist. . . . Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. . . . No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and lad aro hut names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 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 ephemeral3 but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 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...very readily transferable to that or this; the only light is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 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...very readily transferable to that or this; the only light is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself... | |
 | University of Toronto - 1895 - 704 pages
...above." Emerson replied : " They do not seem to be such, but if I am the Devil's child, I will live from the Devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature." Thus Emerson is an iutuitionalist in contradistinction to Eousseau, Mill and other moral... | |
 | 1896 - 374 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 ephemeral3 but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
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