 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...enunciation of this principle, wholly owe their origin to his peculiar phraseology. Thus he says, " No law can be sacred to me, but that of my nature." Now there has been such a vast clatter made concerning the light of nature, and natural reason, that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...wholly from within ? " my friend suggested — " But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but...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... | |
 | 1841 - 572 pages
...below," our author records his answer — the only one, indeed, which can be made with his premises — " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil;" (pp. 41, 42.) and the answer is proof enough that the rule, alone, cannot be a safe one. It makes,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...wholly from within ? my friend suggested — " But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, ' They 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 and bad are... | |
 | 1841 - 568 pages
...below," our author records his answer — the only one, indeed, which can be made with his premises — " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, 1 will live then from the devil;" (pp. 41, 42.) and the answer is proof enough that the rule, alone,... | |
 | 1841 - 640 pages
...enunciation of this principle, wholly owe their origin to his peculiar phraseology. Thus he says, " No law can be sacred to me, but that of my nature." Now there has been such a vast clatter made concerning the light of nature, and natural reason, that... | |
 | 1844 - 638 pages
...wholly from within,' rny friend suggested, " Вut ihese impulses may be from ie.rou!, not from above ;' I replied : ' They do not seem to me to be such, but...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... | |
 | 1844 - 648 pages
...wholly from within,' my friend suggested, " But these impulses may be from below, not from above ;' I replied : ' 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 and bad are... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 584 pages
...traditions, if I live wholly from within ? . . . . But these impulses may be from below, not from above They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, I will live from the devil. No law is sacred to roe but the law of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 564 pages
...traditions, if I live wholly from within? .... But these impulses may be from below, not from above They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, I will live from the devil. No law is sacred to me but the law of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily... | |
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On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child,... 
