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" 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. I will live... "
Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. - Page 42
by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849
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Emerson: A Study of the Poet as Seer

Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 pages
...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...be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live them from the Devil.' " "No law," he adds, "can be sacred to me but that of my own nature. Good and...
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The New England Quarterly, Volume 22

1949 - 598 pages
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The New England Quarterly, Volume 2

1928 - 736 pages
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An Introduction to American Prose

Frederick Clarke Prescott, Gerald De Witt Sanders - 1931 - 784 pages
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Saints and Sinners

Gamaliel Bradford - 1932 - 300 pages
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The Romantic Triumph: American Literature from 1830 to 1860

Tremaine McDowell - 1933 - 768 pages
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Christianity and the Crisis

Percy Dearmer - 1933 - 626 pages
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Walt Whitman

Frederik Schyberg - 1933 - 366 pages
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative Selections, with Introduction ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1934 - 526 pages
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Personal Recollections of English and American Poets

Edward Everett Hale - 1935 - 222 pages
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