 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 my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.  Essays: First Series - 44 ページRalph Waldo Emerson 著 - 1852 - 333 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 ページ
...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...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 ページ
..."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...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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 ページ
...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...it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he." — p. 50. And, again, " Virtues are,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 ページ
...do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, 1 will live then from the devil.' No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good...it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how -easily we... | |
 | 1841 - 640 ページ
...of conduct, not the custom of others, but what is right in his own eyes. " Good and bad," says he, " are but names very readily transferable to that or...constitution, the only wrong what is against it." This doctrine (though true) is liable to much misinterpretation ; especially in the vague and paradoxical... | |
 | 1844 - 648 ページ
...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 to me but that of my nature. Good...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
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