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;... Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures - Seite 31von Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| David J. Wolpe - 2004 - 202 Seiten
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily...heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought. We are corporeal beings. Our bodies are where we begin understanding and explaining the world. Even... | |
| Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 284 Seiten
...found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted; spirit means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow" (E, 20). Laid etymologically bare (right derives from rectus, "straight," wrong from rangr, "awry,"... | |
| Benjamin Wiker, Jonathan Witt - 2006 - 256 Seiten
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted Spirit primarily...sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature.28 "Charles Darwin, "Doubtful Species," chap. 2 of The Origin of Species, 6th ed. (New York:... | |
| D. L. McIntyre - 2007 - 115 Seiten
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily...things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. ..Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can... | |
| 1870 - 476 Seiten
...traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. J fight means ilraight ; wrong means twisted ; spirit primarily means wind...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... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1873 - 800 Seiten
...abstract ideas are borrowed from some material appearance. ' Bight means straight; uwn^meanstwisted. Spirit primarily means wind ; transgression, the crossing...line ; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.' We know that anima in Latin means the wind, the breath of living beings, Ufe, and lastly soul. Sallust... | |
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