It is not words only that are emblematic; it is things which are emblematic. Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting... Orations, Lectures and Essays - Página 27de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 290 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 394 páginas
...things I which are emblematic. Every natural fact is a 1 symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...described by presenting that natural appearance as its picre. An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a torch.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 páginas
...emblematie. Every natural faet is a »•* , ' symbol of some spiritual faet. Every appearance Cf '.- in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, »• and that state of the mind ean only be deseribed i by presenting that natural appearance as its picture. An enraged man is a lion,... | |
| John Ruskin - 1890 - 276 páginas
...his essay on Nature : — " Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...presenting that natural appearance as its picture. . . . It is easily seen that there is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies, but that they... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 páginas
...by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is Taste. July Twenty-ninth. An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a torch. July Thirtieth. July Thirty-first. Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate themselves... | |
| George St. Clair - 1898 - 514 páginas
...and sea. Emerson reminds us that particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts.1 An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox ; a lamb is innocence : light and darkness express knowledge and ignorance ; and a river reminds us of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 464 páginas
...things which are efnblematic. Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...flowers express to us the delicate affections. Light and darkw ness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance; and heat for love. Visible distance... | |
| Harriet Louise Keeler, Mary Elizabeth Adams - 1906 - 300 páginas
...mountains ; They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox,...learned man is a torch. A lamb is innocence ; a snake is subtile spite ; flowers express to us the most delicate affections. Light and darkness are our familiar... | |
| Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1911 - 300 páginas
...'signs of natural facts,' but 'every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...presenting that natural appearance as its picture.' ' It is easily seen that there is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies, but that they are... | |
| Federico Olivero - 1914 - 348 páginas
...dello spirito ,,. Where the Forest murmurs. [The Sunse t of old Tales, 282]. fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...the mind can only be described by presenting that naturai appearance as its picture ». La pace del suo spirito si riflette nella calma radiosa di un... | |
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