 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1850 - 578 páginas
...make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, 'What have I to do with the sacredness...to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, I * Essays, 1 Series, p. 259. will then live from the devil.' No law can be sacred to me, but that of... | |
 | 1850 - 524 páginas
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 páginas
...make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from withiu ? my friend suggested, — " But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied,... | |
 | 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 - 594 páginas
...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... | |
 | 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 - 596 páginas
...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 - 352 páginas
...me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacrediiess of traditions, if I live wholly from within ? my friend...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... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1865 - 454 páginas
...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.'... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 páginas
...make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within 1 my friend suggested : " But • these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied : "... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 páginas
...make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On . my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within 1 my friend suggested : " But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied : " They... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 páginas
...make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, " What have I to do with the sacredness...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... | |
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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 replied, " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's... 
