 | Paul Scott Derrick, Paul Scott - 2003 - 162 pàgines
...material and spiritual dimensions. So, in Chapter IV, devoted to language, he posits three points: 1) Words are signs of natural facts. 2) Particular...spiritual facts. 3) Nature is the symbol of spirit. It doesn't take a genius to see that he has set up a syllogism here. That is, if A=B (language represents... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2007 - 525 pàgines
...Nature Emerson wrote: "Language is a third use which Nature subserves to man. Nature is the vehicle, and in a simple, double, and threefold degree. 1....spiritual facts. 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit." 89 Probable reference to John Russell Bartlett's (1805-1886) Dictionary of Americanisms, published... | |
 | Alessandro Topa - 2007 - 450 pàgines
...„Language is a third use which Nature subserves to man. Nature is the vehicle of thought, and of threefold degree. 1. Words are signs of natural facts....spiritual facts. 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit. (...) The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation,... | |
 | Alessandro Topa - 2007 - 450 pàgines
...„Language is a third use which Nature subserves to man. Nature is the vehicle of thought, and of threefold degree. 1. Words are signs of natural facts....spiritual facts. 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit. (...) The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation,... | |
 | Daniel Walker Howe - 2007 - 926 pàgines
...and intuitive, based on spiritual communion with nature. He summed it up (prosaically) this way: "i. Words are signs of natural facts. 2. Particular natural...particular spiritual facts. 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit."16 Emerson's God (which he elsewhere named the Oversoul) was immanent in the universe. Through... | |
 | Aliki Barnstone - 2006 - 220 pàgines
...formula Emerson puts forward in "Nature" regarding the interaction of words, nature, and the spirit: 1. Words are signs of natural facts. 2. Particular natural facts are signs of particular spiritual facts 3. Nature is the symbol of the spirit. (7) Dickinson is in accord... | |
 | Fiona Becket, Terry Gifford - 2007 - 260 pàgines
...language as it is formulated in Emerson's essay. He opens the chapter on language with three axioms: 1. Words are signs of natural facts. 2. Particular...spiritual facts. 3. Nature is the symbol of spirit. (Emerson 1957a: 31) In his explanation of the first axiom, Emerson states that all concepts originate... | |
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Nature is the vehicle of thought, and in a simple, double, and three-fold degree. 1 . Words are signs of natural facts. 2 . Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts. 3 . Nature is the symbol of spirit. 
