 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;...  Miscellanies - Página 12por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 321 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 páginas
...if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight ; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind ;...spiritual nature. Most of the process by which this transformation is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language was framed; but the same... | |
 | 1846 - 602 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...its root, is found to be borrowed from some Tnaterial appearance. Right originally means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind;...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 páginas
...to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right originally means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind;...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 - 100 páginas
...if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight ; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind;...spiritual nature. Most of the process by which this transformation is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language was framed ; but the same... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 páginas
...if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means .wind;...spiritual nature. Most of the process by which this transformation is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language was, framed; but the same... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 páginas
...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 páginas
...its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right originally means straight ; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind ;...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 páginas
...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... | |
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