 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...  Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 47by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1884 - 610 pages
...such; hut 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 transferable to this or that ; the only right it what it after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it."... | |
 | J. Morrison-Fuller, Walter C. Rose - 1890 - 526 pages
...most be a non-conformist. . . . Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. . . . No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and lad aro hut names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution... | |
 | University of Toronto - 1895 - 704 pages
...objected " But these impulses may be from below not from above." Emerson replied : " They do not seem to be such, but if I am the Devil's child, I will live from the Devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature." Thus Emerson is an iutuitionalist... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 324 pages
...venerable traditions. Your impulses, he said, may be from below, not from above. ' Well,' he replied, ' if I am the devil's child, I will live, then, from the devil.' No law, he adds, can be sacred to me but that of my nature. That is right which is according to my constitution,... | |
 | Samuel James Andrews - 1898 - 396 pages
...our own mind. What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions if I live wholly from within? ... No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ... If I am the devil's child, I will then live from the devil. ... I shun father and mother, and wife... | |
 | 1901 - 884 pages
...venerable traditions. Your impulses, be said, may be from below, not from above. Well, he replied, "if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." No law, he adds, can be sacred to me but that of my nature. That is right which is according to my constitution,... | |
 | Richard Bagot - 1901 - 184 pages
...venerable traditions. Your impulses, he said, may be from below, not from above. Well, he replied, " if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." No law, he adds, can be sacred to me but that of my nature. That is right which is according to my constitution,... | |
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