 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 42de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 303 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...enunciation of this principle, wholly owe their origin to his peculiar phraseology. Thus he says, " No law can be sacred to me, but that of my nature." Now there has been such a vast clatter made concerning the light of nature, and natural reason, that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 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...the only right is what is after my constitution, the 6. Would one necessarily be made better by living alone ? What kind of liberty does one give up in... | |
 | 1841 - 640 pages
...enunciation of this principle, wholly owe their origin to his peculiar phraseology. Thus he says, " No law can be sacred to me, but that of my nature." Now there has been such a vast clatter made concerning the light of nature, and natural reason, that... | |
 | 1844 - 648 pages
...not from above ;' I replied : ' They do not seem to me to be such, but if I am the devil's child, J will live then from the devil!' No law can be sacred...constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it." . . . . " Perhaps, if we should meet Shnkspcare, we should not be conscious of any steep inferiority... | |
 | Human nature - 1844 - 116 pages
...in its place. All relative degrees of good and evil derive their classification from this source. " Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...constitution, the only wrong what is against it."* A philosophical and true standard of right and wrong, good and evil, to which every action may be referred,... | |
 | 1844 - 118 pages
...in its place. All relative degrees of good and evil derive their classification from this source. " Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...constitution, the only wrong what is against it."* A philosophical and true standard of right and wrong, good and evil, to which every action may be referred,... | |
 | 1844 - 638 pages
...seem to me to be such, but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil !' No law can he sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are...transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after rny constitution ; the only wron?, what is against it." . . . . " Perhaps, if we should meet Shnkspeare,... | |
 | 1851 - 650 pages
...authority above his own nature, simply because no such authority exists. " No law," writes Emerson, " can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and...after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it."f There are occasional irreverences in the writings of Emerson to which we decidedly object, and... | |
 | 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."... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 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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