 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.  The Monthly magazine - Page 485by Monthly literary register - 1841Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1856 - 596 pages
...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. ... My life is not an apology, but a. life : it is for itself, and not fora spectacle. I much prefer... | |
 | Light, Twelve Clergymen of the Church of England - 1856 - 374 pages
...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." — p. 9. Again, " trust your emotion." — p. 11. Again, "I suppose no man can violate his nature."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...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.../ / man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposi^ tion, as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but N he. ^lanijashamed to think _ how easily... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 634 pages
...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... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1861 - 636 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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,...it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposi• ti(3n, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - Apologetics - 1872 - 418 pages
...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...himself, in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he."3 " It is of no use to preach to me from without. If... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - Apologetics - 1872 - 420 pages
...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...himself, in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he."3 " It is of no use to preach to me from without. If... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 pages
...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...himself, in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he."3 " It is of no use to preach to me from without. If... | |
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