 A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed by the corruption...  Nature - Seite 27von Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 74 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 Seiten
...depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth and his desire to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed...ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires—the desire of riches, the desire of pleasure, the desire of power, the desire of praise;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 Seiten
...on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed...corruption of language. When simplicity of character and sovereignty of ideas are broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires, the desire of riches, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 Seiten
...on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his -desire to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed...the desire of riches, of pleasure, of power, and of praise,—and duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 Seiten
...on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed...simplicity of character, and the sovereignty of ideas are broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires, the desire of riches, the desire of pleasure,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 Seiten
...on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed...desires, the desire of riches, of pleasure, of power, aiid of praise — and duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 Seiten
...on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed...prevalence of secondary desires, the desire of riches, the desire of pleasure, the desire of power, the desire of praise,— and duplicity and falsehood take... | |
 | Henry Attwell - 1870 - 314 Seiten
...depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth and his desire to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. . . . But wise men pierce this rotten diction, and fasten words again to visible things ; so that picturesque... | |
 | Henry Attwell - 1870 - 314 Seiten
...on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his ' love of truth and his desire to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. . . . But wise men pierce this rotten diction, and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque... | |
 | 1875 - 324 Seiten
...on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed...simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas are broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires, — the desire of riches, of pleasure, of power,... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 Seiten
...on the simplicity of his character ; that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed...simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas are broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires — the desire of riches, of pleasure, of power,... | |
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