 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
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 Seiten
...followed by the corruption of language. When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas are broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires —...desire of riches, of pleasure, of power, and of praise, duplicity and falsehood take the place of simplicity and truth ; the power of Nature as an interpreter... | |
 | RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883 - 428 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...and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, J;he power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost; new imagery ceases to be... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 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...riches, of pleasure, of power, and of praise, — and duplic-^ ity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 Seiten
...ruption of language. ' When simplicity of charaeter and the sovercignty of ideas is broken up by tho prevalence of secondary desires, the desire of riches, of pleasure, of power, and of praise, — and duplic- * ity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, f the power over nature as an interpreter... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 674 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. W hen simplicitv of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 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. When simplicity long-civilized nation, who for a short time believe, and make others believe, that they see and utter... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1893 - 700 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 pf language. When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas are broken up by the prevalence... | |
 | 1897 - 456 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...the prevalence of secondary desires, the desire of right of pleasure, of power and of praise, and duplicity and falsehood take the place of simplicity... | |
 | Lorenzo Sears - 1902 - 494 Seiten
...to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed by corruption of language. Where simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas...and of praise — and duplicity and falsehood take the place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is lost ; new... | |
 | John P. Munson - 1903 - 312 Seiten
...remote time when language was framed; but the same tendency may be daily observed in children. . . . When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of...and of praise — and duplicity and falsehood take the place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature, as an interpreter of the will, is in a degree... | |
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