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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... "
The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation, - Page 53
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 132 pages
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 564 pages
...; 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."...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 584 pages
...; 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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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...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...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...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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...of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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...of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies...
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The Water Cure Journal and Hygienic Magazine, Volume 1

1848 - 1292 pages
...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 very readily...carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed hoV easily we capitulate to badges and...
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The United Presbyterian Magazine, Volume 2

1848 - 596 pages
...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...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...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...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...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...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...if I am the devil's child, I will lire then from the devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily...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...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...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...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...
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