 | Brian Roberts - 2000 - 366 Seiten
..."Self Reliance," declaring that he preferred to live "from within," by impulse, even base impulse: "if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil."*1 Other writers took readers across urban borders, plumbing the depths of urban demimondes... | |
 | James M. Jasper - 2000 - 330 Seiten
...of the Last Judgment." Then, "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." And later: "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." Inner human nature, lodged in the individual, has even displaced religion. The first romantic trait... | |
 | Daniel M. Savage - 2002 - 244 Seiten
...creative."53 When warned of this danger by a friend, Emerson claims to have replied, "'They [his intuitions] do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's...are but names very readily transferable to that or this."54 In a certain sense, my discussion of dualist and organic theories has come full circle because... | |
 | Timothy G. McCarthy, Timothy McCarthy, Sean C. Stidd - 2001 - 306 Seiten
...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... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 Seiten
...this essay: "What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within"; "... if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the..."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"; "I shun father... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 Seiten
..."Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." "If I am the devil's child, I will then live from the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature." "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner ... is the healthy attitude of human... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 Seiten
...Junius "The good need fear no law; it is their safety, and the bad man's awe." — Philip Massinger "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." — Emerson "The reason of the law is the law." — Sir Walter Scott "Good laws make it easier to do... | |
 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 Seiten
...that his inner impulses may be from below, not from above, and remembered being prompted to reply: "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 hopes it is somewhat better than whim at last — for as with prophecy you can only know the true... | |
 | Stephen Young - 2003 - 248 Seiten
...I to do with the sacredness of tradition, 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 be to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.'" 24 If Emerson was... | |
 | Lawrence Buell - 2004 - 420 Seiten
...festival of the earth and a foretaste of the Superman. (Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, part i) "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." (Emerson, "Self-Reliance," W 2: 30) I whisper this advice in the ear of him possessed of a devil: "Better... | |
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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... 
