 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1865 - 454 páginas
...I replied, ' They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devif* child, I will live then for the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature.' " That is not the lesson of the Bible ; that is the lesson of Nature, not of the engrafted... | |
 | Edward Maitland - 1868 - 312 páginas
...Do you remember,' asked Mary, ' that sentence of Emerson, "If I am the devil's child, I will live as from the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." I was shocked by it when I first read it; but it seems plain that nothing can act contrary to its nature,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 páginas
...above." I replied : " 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...it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposi• ti(3n, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily... | |
 | Edward Maitland - 1871 - 488 páginas
...yon remember,' asked Mary, ' that sentence of Emerson, " If I am the devil's child, I will live as from the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." I was shocked by it when I first read it; but it seems plain that nothing can act contrary to its nature,... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 páginas
...child, I will live from the devil. Good and bad are names very readily transferable to this or that; the only right is what is after my constitution, the...if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." 3 " It is of no use to preach to me from without. If a man do not speak from within the veil, where... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 páginas
...child, I will live from the devil. Good and bad are names very readily transferable to this or that ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the...opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he."3 " It is of no use to preach to me from without. If a man do not speak from within the veil, where... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 418 páginas
...child, I will live from the devil. Good and bad are names very readily transferable to this or that ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the...opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he."3 " It is of no use to preach to me from without. If a man do not speak from within the veil, where... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 páginas
...child, I will live from the devil. Good and bad are names very readily transferable to this or that ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the...opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he."3 " It is of no use to preach to me from without. If a man do not speak from within the veil, where... | |
 | Francis William Upham - 1873 - 454 páginas
...must not harbor such disconsolate consciences, borrowed, too, from the consciences of other nations. Good and bad are but names, very readily transferable to that or this. All the universe over there is but one thing ; this old two face creatorcreature, mind-matter, right-wrong,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 páginas
...above." I replied : ' 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...opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but him. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead... | |
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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. 
