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 then from the devil.' No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily... Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Página 70por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 245 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| University of Toronto - 1895 - 704 páginas
...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 in contradistinction to Eousseau, Mill and other moral... | |
| 1896 - 374 páginas
...— "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...that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition,... | |
| 1896 - 234 páginas
...— " 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...that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 páginas
...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 then...to that or this: the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 324 páginas
...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,... | |
| 1898 - 462 páginas
...can be sacred to me but that of iny nature. Good ann. bad are but munt» very readily trausferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against if. 415 tweeledig op : als zijn en als zóó-zijn. Dus... | |
| Samuel James Andrews - 1898 - 396 páginas
...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 páginas
...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 then...to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 páginas
...— "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 then...readily transferable to that or this; the only right i/is what is after my constitution; the only " "/ l}wronS what is against it. A man is to carry himself... | |
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