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... The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register - Page 4871841Full view - About this book
| Richard Poirier - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 334 pages
...Lost, which induced Blake to say that Milton was of the Devil's party and Emerson to say, after Blake: "If I am the Devil's child I will live then from the Devil"; it can be heard more genially in the verbal duels of Hotspur and Glendower in Henry IV, Part One, in... | |
| Religion in literature - 156 pages
...are those who consider self-reliance too subjective as the basis of authority, but as Emerson says, "no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." For good or ill, we have only ourselves to go by, our own sense of right and wrong. People tend to... | |
| John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 376 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...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." VIII (a) My account will be hard to follow: because it says something new but still has egg-shells... | |
| Carl J. Richard - History - 2004 - 396 pages
..."innocence." He retorted to those who said that the impulses of his intuition might be the voice of the devil, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." He added, "I like the silent church before the service begins better than any preaching." Intuition... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Devotional calendars - 2004 - 396 pages
...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."...replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if 1 am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my... | |
| Charles B. Guignon - Philosophy - 2004 - 212 pages
...Emerson, who in "Self-Reliance" wrote: "Nothing is sacred but the integrity of your own mind. . . . No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what... | |
| Charles B. Guignon - Philosophy - 2004 - 204 pages
...Emerson, who in "Self-Reliance" wrote: "Nothing is sacred but the integrity of your own mind. . . . No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what... | |
| John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer - Criticism - 2004 - 372 pages
...On my saying. "What have I to do with the sarredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from ahove." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then... | |
| Michael Dirda - Literary Collections - 2005 - 566 pages
...Quaker's "inner light or still small voice," for example, lies behind the moralist's insistence that "no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." "The universe," as he says elsewhere, "is the externalization of the soul." Near the end of his book,... | |
| Peggy Rosenthal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 320 pages
...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...No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. A Renaissance character might have made such a blasphemous self-assertion, setting his own sacredness... | |
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