 | J. Morrison-Fuller, Walter C. Rose - 1890 - 526 pagine
...most be a non-conformist. . . . Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. . . . No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and lad aro hut names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution... | |
 | University of Toronto - 1895 - 704 pagine
...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 - 324 pagine
...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,... | |
 | Samuel James Andrews - 1898 - 396 pagine
...our own mind. What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions if I live wholly from within? ... No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ... If I am the devil's child, I will then live from the devil. ... I shun father and mother, and wife... | |
 | 1901 - 884 pagine
...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,... | |
 | Richard Bagot - 1901 - 184 pagine
...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,... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 470 pagine
...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 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1860 - 708 pagine
...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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pagine
...integrity of your own mind." " The virtue most in request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness... | |
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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... 
