 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, ' What have I to do with the sacredness...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, " What have I to do with the sacredness...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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 pages
...make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the Church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the . church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of...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 - 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,... | |
 | 1841 - 640 pages
...make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, ' What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from whhin ?' my friend suggested — ' But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 1844 - 648 pages
...dear old doctrines of the Church : on my saying ' what have I to do with the sacredness of tradition?, if I live wholly from within,' my friend suggested,...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... | |
 | 1844 - 638 pages
...make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the Church : on my saying ' what have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within,' rny friend suggested, " Вut ihese impulses may be from ie.rou!, not from above ;' I replied : ' They... | |
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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... 
