 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
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. No law can be sacred to me but that 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 what is against it.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...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...it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposi• ti(3n, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 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...all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he."3 " It is of no use to preach to me from without. If a man do not speak from within... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 418 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...all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he."3 " It is of no use to preach to me from without. If a man do not speak from within... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 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...all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he."3 " It is of no use to preach to me from without. If a man do not speak from within... | |
 | Francis William Upham - 1873 - 454 pages
...must not harbor such disconsolate consciences, borrowed, too, from the consciences of other nations. Good and bad are but names, very readily transferable to that or this. All the universe over there is but one thing ; this old two face creatorcreature, mind-matter, right-wrong,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 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...all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but him. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 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...all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but him. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 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...all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but him. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies... | |
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