 | 1850
...with the sacredness of tradition, if I live wholly from within ? ' My friend suggested, ' But those impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied,...to be such ; but, if I am the devil's child, I will use them from the devil." This reply was smart enough, and might not have been misunderstood by his... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856
...present tense against all the rumours of wrath, past or to come.'— (Emerson on Spiritual Laws.) ' My friend suggested: " But these impulses may be from...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 nature: good and bad are but names, very readily... | |
 | 1856
...past or to come.' — (Emerson on Spiritual Laws.) ' My friend suggested: "But these impulses maybe from below, not from above." I replied, they do not...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 nature : good and bad are but names, very... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 333 páginas
...On my saying, What have I to do with the sacrediiess 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." law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ^ Good and bad are but names very readily transferable... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864
...the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature....and bad are but names very readily transferable to this or that : the only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong what is against it.... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1865
...strength, we must harbour such disconsolate consciences." Again, he says : — " My friend suggested, tBut these impulses may be from below, not from above.'...They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devif* child, I will live then for the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature.'... | |
 | Edward Maitland - 1868
...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 - 472 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Francis William Upham - 1873 - 370 páginas
...must not harbor such disconsolate consciences, borrowed, too, from the consciences of other nations. Good and bad are but names, very readily transferable to that or this. All the universe over there is but one thing ; this old two face creatorcreature, mind-matter, right-wrong,... | |
 | George Claude Lorimer - 1881 - 367 páginas
...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... | |
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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." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after... 
