 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;...  Complete Works - Seite 33von Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 Seiten
...crossing of a line. We say the " heart " to express emotion, the "head" to denote thought, and so on. "And 'thought' and 'emotion' are words borrowed from...is hidden from us in the remote time when language 123 one into the stream, and the circles that propagate beraselves are the beautiful type of all influence.... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 Seiten
...fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance." Thus, "right" means straight; "wrong" means twisted; "spirit" primarily...means wind; "transgression" the crossing of a line. We say the " heart " to express emotion, the "head" to denote thought, and so on. "And 'thought' and... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1883 - 606 Seiten
...traced to its root, is found to have been borrowed from some material appearance. Right. originally means straight; wrong means twisted ; spirit primarily...head to denote thought ; and thought and emotion are in their turn words borrowed from sensible things and now appropriated to spiritual nature." Now, a... | |
 | Edward Madeley - 1883 - 768 Seiten
...fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. " Riglit originally means straight, ; wrong means twisted ; spirit primarily...head, to denote thought ; and thought and emotion are, in their turn, words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1883 - 650 Seiten
...traced to its root, is found to have been borrowed from some material appearance. Right originally means straight; wrong means twisted; spirit primarily...eyebrow ; we say the heart to express emotion, the he ad to denote thought ; and thought and emotion are in their turn words borrowed from sensible things... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 Seiten
...twixted. Spirit primarily means wind ; truuxyrcxxion, the erossing of a line ; gupercilioim, the ra'miny of the eyebrow. "We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought ; and thouyht and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual r nature.... | |
 | Edward Madeley, Edward Madeley (Jr.) - 1883 - 768 Seiten
...means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; miperciliou.i, the raiding of the cye-broic. \Ve say the heart to express emotion ; the 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 - 1884 - 398 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...spiritual nature. Most of the process by which this transfermation is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language was framed ; but the same... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 Seiten
...if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Jtight means ffraigKi; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind;...spiritual nature. Most of the process by which this transfermation is made, is hidden from us in the remote timo when language was framed ; but the same... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 Seiten
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Rir/ht means straight ; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily...supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart lo express emotion, the head to denote thought ; and tkouijht and e/iiution are words borrowed from... | |
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