 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.  To-day - Page 106edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
 | 1924 - 1042 pages
...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 ;...constitution, the only wrong is what is against it. It would be difficult to go further than that in frank individualism; and no wonder that Professor... | |
 | Ludwig Lewisohn - 1924 - 228 pages
...words of Emerson, AN CHANGING arch Puritan and Protestant himself : "Good and MORAL WORLD bad are but names, very readily transferable to that or this ;...right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it." The history of human conduct bears out Emerson's saying in a very practical and... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1930 - 532 pages
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 | Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 360 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but five principal commandments of the creed of Islam,...pilgrimage, almsgiving, ablution, and war against i what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...transferable to~%hat or this ; the i only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong I what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence i of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but him. I_am_ashamcd to think; hnw... | |
 | Benjamin De Casseres - 1926 - 350 pages
...words : "Society is everywhere in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. * * * The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it." Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau uttered equally radical words. But no one... | |
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