 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pàgines
...not from above." I replied, " They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am 35 the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." No law can be sacred...my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pàgines
...impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, " They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral... | |
 | Stephen French Whitman - 1913 - 514 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1921 - 492 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1999 - 260 pàgines
...one of my plays: ¡BE: see SL 128-9. 7 1 : scies: boring sayings . 73: own nature: see Emerson SR 30: 'No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.' about me: see SL 177-8 n. sold: the contents of 16 Tite Street, including all Wilde's books and papers,... | |
 | Gustaaf Van Cromphout - 1999 - 196 pàgines
...have found Emerson, at one and the same time, too empirical in his derivation of what is morally right ("No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. . . . the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it" — CW 2:30)... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pàgines
...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...my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral... | |
 | James M. Jasper - 2000 - 330 pàgines
...of the Last Judgment." Then, "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." And later: "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." Inner human nature, lodged in the individual, has even displaced religion. The first romantic trait... | |
 | Frank Mehring - 2001 - 194 pàgines
...individuellen geistigen Persönlichkeit nicht verletzt wird, gibt es für Emerson keine moralische Bindungen: „No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature....constitution; the only wrong what is against it." 346 Der Mensch rückt in das Zentrum der Untersuchung. Wenn Thoreau in „The Ponds" sich der Erinnerung... | |
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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... 
