 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 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 wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness... | |
 | 1909 - 540 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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 508 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...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... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1999 - 260 pages
...one of my plays: ¡BE: see SL 128-9. 7 1 : scies: boring sayings . 73: own nature: see Emerson SR 30: 'No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.' about me: see SL 177-8 n. sold: the contents of 16 Tite Street, including all Wilde's books and papers,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 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...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... | |
 | James M. Jasper - 2000 - 330 pages
...of the Last Judgment." Then, "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." And later: "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." Inner human nature, lodged in the individual, has even displaced religion. The first romantic trait... | |
 | Frank Mehring - 2001 - 194 pages
...individuellen geistigen Persönlichkeit nicht verletzt wird, gibt es für Emerson keine moralische Bindungen: „No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature....constitution; the only wrong what is against it." 346 Der Mensch rückt in das Zentrum der Untersuchung. Wenn Thoreau in „The Ponds" sich der Erinnerung... | |
 | Bernd Herzogenrath - 2001 - 442 pages
...particularly Walden, Civil Disobedience, Nature and Self-Reliance. In the latter Emerson writes that "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature....right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it" (958). This somewhat solipsistic statement constitutes something of a blueprint... | |
 | Ann Swidler - 2001 - 324 pages
...the people" could "form a more perfect union." (Remember that it was Ralph Waldo Emerson who wrote "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature....right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it." And even more unsettling to a modern ear: "But do your thing, and I shall know... | |
 | Daniel M. Savage - 2002 - 244 pages
..."'They [his intuitions] 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...are but names very readily transferable to that or this."54 In a certain sense, my discussion of dualist and organic theories has come full circle because... | |
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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. 
