 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...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 reБО plied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 pages
...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...be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live them from the Devil.' " "No law," he adds, "can be sacred to me but that of my own nature. Good and... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1990 - 207 pages
...direction, hence, in one sense, no path (plottable from outside the journey). (From "Self-Reliance" : "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." The idea is that attempting not to live so would not protect the world from the fact of you, probably... | |
 | Charles Swann - 1991 - 298 pages
...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...seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, 1 will live then from the Devil."1 In effect what Septimius is doing as he responds to his adviser,... | |
 | Millicent Bell - 1993 - 180 pages
...being recognized as one of God's adopted - declaring, in the formula Emerson made bold to appropriate, "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil"; and most suitably, perhaps, if that tortured "I" could share the misery Dickinson called that "white... | |
 | William M. Shea, Peter A. Huff - 2003 - 378 pages
...the nation's constitution, or as the amending of its constitution. When he says in "Self-Reliance," "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature," he is saying no more than Kant had said—that, in a phrase from "Fate," "we are law-givers" to the... | |
 | Sanford Budick - 1996 - 372 pages
...the nation's constitution; or I have come to say, as amending our constitution. When he says there, "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature," he is saying no more than Kant had said — that, in a phrase from "Fate," "we are law-givers," namely... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1999 - 260 pages
...one of my plays: ¡BE: see SL 128-9. 7 1 : scies: boring sayings . 73: own nature: see Emerson SR 30: 'No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.' about me: see SL 177-8 n. sold: the contents of 16 Tite Street, including all Wilde's books and papers,... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...not be in town the next week to meet preachers or deacons or faithful parishioners in the streets. "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature," he could say on the platform, knowing full well that it would have been another thing altogether to... | |
 | Gustaaf Van Cromphout - 1999 - 196 pages
...have found Emerson, at one and the same time, too empirical in his derivation of what is morally right ("No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. . . . the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it" — CW 2:30)... | |
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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 child. I will live... 
