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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. "
The Water Cure Journal and Hygienic Magazine - Page 69
1848
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Brownson's Quarterly Review

1845 - 564 pages
...such ; 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
...such ; 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
...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...thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. Every...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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...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...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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...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...
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The United Presbyterian Magazine, Volume 2

1848 - 596 pages
...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...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

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...such ; but 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...thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies amd dead institutions. Every...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...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...thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies amd dead institutions. Every...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...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...thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. Every...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...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...thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. Every...
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