 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...  Montaigne: The Endless Study... - Página 77por Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1850Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1850 - 524 páginas
...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... | |
 | Light, Twelve Clergymen of the Church of England - 1856 - 374 páginas
...highest worship."* Again, a writerf of the same school, says, " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...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."... | |
 | 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 - 596 páginas
...am the devil's child, I will live, then, for the devil ; no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature : good and bad are but names, very readily...constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it. ... My life is not an apology, but a. life : it is for itself, and not fora spectacle. I much prefer... | |
 | 1861 - 634 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 páginas
...to me but that 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 what is against it. I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write upon the lintels... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 páginas
...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...my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposi• ti(3n, as if everything were titular and... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 páginas
...child, I will live from the devil. Good and bad are names very readily transferable to this or that ; 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 everything were titular and ephemeral... | |
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