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 42by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849Full view - About this book
| Edward Maitland - 1868 - 312 pages
...Do you remember,' asked Mary, ' that sentence of Emerson, "If I am the devil's child, I will live as from the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." I was shocked by it when I first read it; but it seems plain that nothing can act contrary to its nature,... | |
| Edward Maitland - 1871 - 488 pages
...yon remember,' asked Mary, ' that sentence of Emerson, " If I am the devil's child, I will live as from the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." I was shocked by it when I first read it; but it seems plain that nothing can act contrary to its nature,... | |
| George Claude Lorimer - 1881 - 388 pages
...distinguish by any favor; MORALITY AND VIRTUE. 75 she comes eating and drinking and sinning." . . . "My friend suggested : ' But these impulses may be...such, but if I am the devil's child I will live, then, for the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature."' The tendency of such sentiments... | |
| George Claude Lorimer - 1881 - 388 pages
...I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such, but if I am the devil's child I will live, then, for the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature.'" The tendency of such sentiments as these, and they are creeping into our literature more... | |
| George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," 5 because the mind is ,the descending Spirit. " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature," 6 because it is the law pf the Over1 Society and Solitude, p. 274. a Essays, first series, p. 249.... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...integrity of your own mind." " The virtue most in request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrffRg what is against it." "Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...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...sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are T)ut names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...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...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." N0.Iaw can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1884 - 608 pages
...sacreducss of traditions, if I live wholly from willun? 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... | |
| James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1886 - 806 pages
...that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong, what is against it .... if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." " In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended." (Humility used to be looked upon as the foundation... | |
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