 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 53by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 132 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 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... | |
 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1850 - 450 pages
...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...constitution, the only wrong what is against it."* Ah me, how true it is, as recorded by the pen of inspiration, " that there is a way which seemeth right... | |
 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1850 - 578 pages
...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...only right is what is after my constitution, the only \vrong what is against it."* Ah me, how true it is, as recorded by the pen of inspiration, " that there... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 594 pages
...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 nature: good and bad are but names, very readily...constitution; the only wrong, what is against it. ... My life is not an apology, but a life: it is for itself, and not for a spectacle. I much prefer... | |
 | Light, Twelve Clergymen of the Church of England - 1856 - 374 pages
...highest worship."* Again, a writerf of the same school, says, " 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." — p. 9. Again, " trust your emotion." — p. 11. Again, "I suppose no man can violate his nature."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ^ Good and bad are but names very readily.../ / man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposi^ tion, as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but N he. ^lanijashamed to think _ how easily... | |
 | 1861 - 634 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." We are even informed, on what we believe to be reliable authority, that, on a winter day, this gentleman... | |
 | 1861 - 636 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." We are even informed, on what we believe to be reliable authority, that, on a winter day, this gentleman... | |
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