 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;...  Complete Works - Pàgina 33per Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1846 - 602 pàgines
...fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance: right originally means straight; wrong means twisted; spirit primarily...means wind; transgression the crossing of a line. . . But it is not words only that are emblematic ; it is things which are emblematic. Every natural... | |
 | Horatius Bonar - 1847 - 438 pàgines
...fact, if traced to its root, is found to be . borrowed from some material appearance ; right originally means straight; wrong means twisted; spirit primarily...means wind; transgression the crossing of a line, . . . But it is not words only that are emblematic ; it is things which are emblematic. Every natural... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pàgines
...fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some Tnaterial 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 sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pàgines
...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 sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pàgines
...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; tupercilious, the raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pàgines
...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 sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most... | |
 | 1858 - 596 pàgines
...drapery of the penitent Magdalene of blue, to denote the constancy of her love for the Saviour. • twisted ; spirit primarily means wind ; transgression,...things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature." Who does not see that it is possible from such hints to open a new world of thought to young minds... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pàgines
...fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right originally means straight ; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily...say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote 26 thought ; and thought and emotion are, in their turn, words borrowed from sensible things, and now... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pàgines
...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; swperrihous, the raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pàgines
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Bight means straight ; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily...eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the liead to denote thought ; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now... | |
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