 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...  Emerson and Eros– The Making of a Cultural Hero - 126 psl.autoriai: Len Gougeon - 2012 - 278 psl.Ribota peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Lloyd R. Morris - 1927 - 428 psl.
...man must be a nonconformist. . . . Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. ... 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." This was exciting doctrine. It made you the... | |
 | George Carpenter Clancy - 1928 - 288 psl.
...to 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... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 psl.
...to 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...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... | |
 | David Jacobson - 2010 - 221 psl.
...to the challenge that unknown to him his beliefs may do the devil's work, he responded by asserting, "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil" (CW 2:30). Emerson found justice in the clarification and accountability of one's situation and not... | |
 | Robert Weisbuch - 1989 - 364 psl.
...determined by the wild. Thoreau at Walden would reply to the moralist as Emerson does in "Self-Reliance": "'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" (CW, II, 30). But in "Higher Laws," the good is something... | |
 | David Miller - 1989 - 368 psl.
...tensest images offer an implicit critique of Emerson's blithe announcement in "Self-Reliance" that " '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 readily transferable... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1990 - 207 psl.
...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 psl.
...to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrine of the church. On my saying, "What have I to do with the sacredness...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 psl.
...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... | |
 | Thomas Kerth, George C. Schoolfield - 1996 - 334 psl.
...89). argues that the impulses within him "may be from below, not from above." And Emerson answers: "They do not seem to me to 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 readily transferable... | |
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