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... Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 52by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
| Oscar Lovell Triggs - 1905 - 312 pages
...general would adopt the saying of Emerson : "Virtue is the adherence in action to the nature of things: The only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it." And if the retort be made : "These impulses may be from below," Whitman would... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...we value total powers and effects — as, the impression, the quality, the spirit of men and things. A MAN is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition...if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. "THE prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower, kneeling with... | |
| George Edward Woodberry - 1907 - 252 pages
...man obeys his constitution, he will be in the right. Here is Emerson's only sanction of morality ; " the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it." A man cannot violate his own nature, in any case ; but error lies in setting up - one part of it by itself.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...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 my 5 constitution ; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all... | |
| 1860 - 708 pages
...sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names readily transferable to this or that ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it." A little after he says, " I suppose no man can violate his nature." Now, we... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...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...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... | |
| William Crary Brownell - 1909 - 572 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." IV It would, indeed, be hardly too fanciful to find Emerson's philosophy very considerably derived... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...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;...wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in^the presenci of all opposition, as if every thing were titular and ephemera but he. I am ashamed... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of ic my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ;...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 is capitulate to... | |
| Alice Hubbard - 1911 - 462 pages
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