 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... - Pagina 77di Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1850Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pagine
...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 tiii - ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pagine
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pagine
...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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1841 - 640 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1844 - 648 pagine
...I am the devil's child, J 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...constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it." . . . . " Perhaps, if we should meet Shnkspcare, we should not be conscious of any steep inferiority... | |
 | 1844 - 118 pagine
...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,... | |
 | Human nature - 1844 - 116 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 but names very readily 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 pagine
...simply because no such authority exists. " No law," writes Emerson, " can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...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... | |
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