 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - Страниц: 1092
...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...; 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - Страниц: 168
...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...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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - Страниц: 618
...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...; 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - Страниц: 396
...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...; 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... | |
 | 1841 - Страниц: 640
...On my saying, ' What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from whhin ?' my friend suggested — ' But these impulses may be...; 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - Страниц: 324
...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...to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, 1 will live then from the devil.' No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are... | |
 | 1841 - Страниц: 572
...below," our author records his answer — the only one, indeed, which can be made with his premises — " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil;" (pp. 41, 42.) and the answer is proof enough that the rule, alone, cannot be a safe... | |
 | 1841 - Страниц: 568
...below," our author records his answer — the only one, indeed, which can be made with his premises — " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, 1 will live then from the devil;" (pp. 41, 42.) and the answer is proof enough that the rule, alone,... | |
 | 1844 - Страниц: 648
...on my saying ' what have I to do with the sacredness of tradition?, if I live wholly from within,' my friend suggested, " But these impulses may be from...seem to me to be such, but if I am the devil's child, J will live then from the devil!' No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are... | |
 | 1844 - Страниц: 638
...traditions, if I live wholly from within,' rny friend suggested, " Вut ihese impulses may be from ie.rou!, not from above ;' I replied : ' They do not seem to...such, but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil !' No law can he sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very... | |
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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 my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. 
