 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...  Essays - Page 42by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...below, not from 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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...not from 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...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... | |
 | 1848 - 596 pages
...not from 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...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... | |
 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1850 - 450 pages
...seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, I * 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 to that or this ; the only right is... | |
 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1850 - 578 pages
...seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, I * 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 to that or this ; the only right is... | |
 | 1849 - 448 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... | |
 | 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
...ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; from the devil." No law can be sacred to me but that...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 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
...replied, they do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, I will live, then, for the devil; no law can be sacred to me but that of...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
...is the truest prayer, and work, the highest worship."* Again, a writerf of the same school, says, " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature....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."... | |
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