Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line;... Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Página 31de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 372 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1873 - 864 páginas
...all, that all words which express abstract ideas are borrowed from some material appearance. " Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind ; transgression, the crossing of i • Lectures an tke Science of Lamftutft, H. p. Tlt Letters, Lectures, and Rcaitva, by HL Mamd, p.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 464 páginas
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight ; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily...and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most of thf process by which this transformation is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language... | |
| Arthur John Fynn - 1907 - 320 páginas
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted; Spirit primarily...heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought. . . . Light and darkness are our familiar expressions for knowledge and ignorance; and heat for love.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 páginas
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily...transformation is made, is hidden from us in the remote tune when language was framed; but the same tendency may be daily observed in children. Children and... | |
| W. F. Bolton - 1966 - 244 páginas
...fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right originally means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily...head to denote thought; and thought and emotion are, in their turn, words borrowed from 191 sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most... | |
| Kenneth Burke - 1966 - 534 páginas
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted; Spirit primarily...means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supereilious, the raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought;... | |
| Stephen Prickett - 1986 - 324 páginas
...borrowed from a material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit means primarily wind; transgression the crossing of a line; supercilious the raising of the eyebrows. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought, and thought and emotion... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau - 1994 - 148 páginas
...primarily means wind teansgression, the crossing of a line, supercilious, the raising of the eyehrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought, and thought and motion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most of the... | |
| Albert-Reiner Glaap - 1992 - 252 páginas
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily...the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising ofthe eyebrow}9 Daß sich Whitman an diese Stelle tatsächlich erinnerte, beweist sein später Aufsatz... | |
| Nathaniel Mackey - 1993 - 332 páginas
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily...crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.12 Still, the gulf persists, etymologies notwithstanding. The spoken word, however much it... | |
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