| University of Toronto - 1895 - 704 páginas
...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 - 326 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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Richard Bagot - 1901 - 184 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,... | |
| 1901 - 884 páginas
...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,... | |
| Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 470 páginas
...church. 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 below, not from above." I i. replied : " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then... | |
| Oscar Lovell Triggs - 1905 - 312 páginas
...made : "These impulses may be from below," Whitman would respond as cheerfully as did the elder sage : "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from...no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." However Whitman is more inclined to deny the validity of the terms good and bad altogether and would... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 páginas
...who does not submit to the established creed or rule. 2 Undying fame. 3 Justify. 4 Vote of approval. such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live...that or this ; the only right is what is after my 5 constitution ; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all... | |
| 1860 - 708 páginas
...course, can be committed against him. The sole authority is man's own nature. " No law," he says, " can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names readily transferable to this or that ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong... | |
| Susan Elizabeth Blow - 1908 - 430 páginas
...suggested his friend, " may be from the devil." " They do not seem to me to be so," answered Emerson, " but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." l This story lays bare the noblest impulse that beats in the heart of the new return to nature. The... | |
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