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 - 1912 - 314 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...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
...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 to me but that of ic my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right... | |
| 1904 - 1036 pages
...integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself and you shall have the suffrage of the world. ... A man is to carry himself, in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but him. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
| Stephen French Whitman - 1913 - 514 pages
...Emerson said about that? ' What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live from within? No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.' And he was right. To be an individual, one must live his own life. "We don't all find our best satisfaction... | |
| Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 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... | |
| Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1921 - 492 pages
...Even'into the field of ethics Montaigne and Emerson carried their scepticism and their individualism. ' ' Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong, what is against it, ' ' M wrote Emerson, echoing Montaigne 's sentiment... | |
| Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the 20 devil's child, I will live then from the devil." No law can be sacred...the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry him- 25 self in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he.... | |
| James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 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... | |
| Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." <I No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature s* <I Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this : the only right is what... | |
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