They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am 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 to that or [his; the only right is what is after... The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 247by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Full view - About this book
| Stanley Cavell - 1990 - 207 pages
...direction, hence, in one sense, no path (plottable from outside the journey). (From "Self-Reliance" : "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." The idea is that attempting not to live so would not protect the world from the fact of you, probably... | |
| Charles Swann - 1991 - 298 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...seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, 1 will live then from the Devil."1 In effect what Septimius is doing as he responds to his adviser,... | |
| Millicent Bell - 1993 - 180 pages
...being recognized as one of God's adopted - declaring, in the formula Emerson made bold to appropriate, "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil"; and most suitably, perhaps, if that tortured "I" could share the misery Dickinson called that "white... | |
| Wilfred M. McClay - 1994 - 386 pages
...creators, but names and customs. . . . Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. . . . No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature....but names very readily transferable to that or this. ... A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and... | |
| E. Miller Budick - 1998 - 268 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 from...readily transferable to that or this; the only right is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. ... If malice and vanity wear the coat of... | |
| Daniel M. Savage - 2002 - 244 pages
...creative."53 When warned of this danger by a friend, Emerson claims to have replied, "'They [his intuitions] do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's...are but names very readily transferable to that or this."54 In a certain sense, my discussion of dualist and organic theories has come full circle because... | |
| Timothy G. McCarthy, Timothy McCarthy, Sean C. Stidd - 2001 - 306 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...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." VIII. (a) My account will be hard to follow: because it says something new but still has egg-shells... | |
| David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...this essay: "What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within"; "... if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the..."No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature"; "... the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it"; "I shun father... | |
| Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 pages
..."Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." "If I am the devil's child, I will then live from the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature." "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner ... is the healthy attitude of human... | |
| Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 pages
...that his inner impulses may be from below, not from above, and remembered being prompted to reply: "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the...Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.") He hopes it is somewhat better than whim at last — for as with prophecy you can only know the true... | |
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