 ... of thought. The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive. Small and mean things serve as well as great symbols. The meaner the type by which a '' law...  Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 2d series - Page 22by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 284 pages
...as great symbols. The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is, and the more lasting in the memories of men • just as we...excited mind ; as it is related of Lord Chatham, that THE POET. 23 he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary, when he was preparing to speak in Parliament.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 286 pages
...as great symbols. The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is, and the more lasting in the memories of men • just as we...words are found suggestive, to an imaginative and ex?ited mind ; as it is related of Lord Chatham, that he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...as great symbols. The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is, and the more lasting in the memories of men • just as we...he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary, vhen he was preparing to speak in Parliament. The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 274 pages
...as great symbols. The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is, and the more lasting in the memories of men • just as we...Chatham, that he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dietunary, when he was preparing to speak in Parliament. The poorest experience is rich enough for... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 pages
...as great symbols. The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is, and the more lasting in the memories of men ; just as we choose...utensil can be carried. Bare lists of words are found in suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind ; as it is related of Lord Chatham that he was accustomed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 pages
...as great symbols. The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is, and the more lasting in the memories of men ; just as we choose...utensil can be carried. Bare lists of words are found m suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind,' as it is related of Lord Chatham that he was accustomed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...as great symbols. The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is, and the g to be done, now that. What is he that he should Parlia« ment. The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought. Why... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 234 pages
...as great symbols. The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is, and the more lasting in the memories of men: just as we choose...Dictionary, when he was preparing to speak in Parliament. Tlie poorest experience is ricli enough for all the purposes of expressing thought. Why covet a knowledge... | |
 | 1885 - 686 pages
...Trench. Most words have a history and a thought buried amid their roots. Lord Chatham, it is said, was accustomed to read in Bailey's dictionary when he was preparing to speak in Parliament. "In words, contemplated singly," sayy Trench, "there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...as great symbols. The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is, and the more lasting in the memories of men : just as we choose...excited mind ; as it is related of Lord Chatham, that he wae accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary, when he was preparing to speak in Parliament. The poorest... | |
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