 | Peggy Rosenthal - 2005 - 320 páginas
...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. A Renaissance character might have made such a blasphemous... | |
 | Allan Lloyd-Smith - 2004 - 209 páginas
...Emerson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1960) p. 42. 30. But Emerson also could say, in "Experience": "but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." 31. Frontier Gothic, David Mogen, Scott P. Sanders, Joanne B. Karpinski, eds. (London and Toronto:... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 páginas
...within," and that, while his "impulses" seem to him to come not "from below," but "from above," even if "I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil" (E&L 261-62). Given his equation of infinitude with the individual, and the categorical imperative... | |
 | Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Peter Holbrook - 2006 - 980 páginas
...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." 34. Oeuvres completes, 824. Cf. III. 5; 956: "I am content... | |
 | M. William Phelps - 2006 - 412 páginas
...put the receiver to her mouth. "I'm going to prove you are the liar, Carl." not from above . . . but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil. — Ralph Waldo Emerson THE RUSE It was five days before the winter solstice. December 16, 2004, started... | |
 | T. Gregory Garvey - 2006 - 280 páginas
...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'" (CW 1:30). In this passage, Emerson shifts the foundations of duty from tradition to the self. The... | |
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 páginas
...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 transferable to... | |
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 páginas
...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 transferable to... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 páginas
...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 transferable to... | |
 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 páginas
...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.'" For Emerson, "sacredness" was now a matter of internal disposition and personal perception. He believed... | |
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They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil. 
