 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1850 - 450 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1850 - 524 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pàgines
...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...my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral... | |
 | 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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pàgines
...They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ^ Good...constitution, the only wrong what is against it.\ A / / man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposi^ tion, as if every thing were titular and... | |
 | 1861 - 634 pàgines
...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." We are even informed, on what we believe to be reliable authority, that, on a winter day, this gentleman... | |
 | 1861 - 636 pàgines
...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." We are even informed, on what we believe to be reliable authority, that, on a winter day, this gentleman... | |
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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... 
