 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;...  Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures - Página 31de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Perry Miller - 1962 - 1164 páginas
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 | 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... | |
 | Myron Simon - 1966 - 248 páginas
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 | 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;... | |
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