 Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts, savages, who have only what is necessary, converse in figures. As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry; or...  Miscellanies - Page 31by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 425 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...who have only what is necessary, converse in figures. As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry;...This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power... | |
 | 1846 - 602 pages
...who have only what is necessary, converse in figures. As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry,...found to make the original elements of all languages." This immaterial element, thus disengaging itself out of material facts, not only furnishes us with... | |
 | Horatius Bonar - 1847 - 438 pages
...who have only what is necessary, converse in figures. As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque until its infancy, when it is all poetry,...found to make the original elements of all languages." This immaterial element, thus disengaging itself out of material facts, not only furnishes us with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...who have only what is necessary, converse in figures. As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry;...This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...who have only what is necessary, converse in figures. As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry;...the last. This immediate dependence of language upon Nature—this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...who have only what is necessary, converse in figures. As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry;...This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...who have only what is necessary, converse in figures. As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry...This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...who have only what is necessary, converse in figures. As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry...This immediate dependence of language upon nature — this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its... | |
 | John Orr (Unitarian minister.) - 1857 - 518 pages
...human thoughts and visible things." " As we go back in history," says Emerson, " language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry;...or, all spiritual facts are represented by natural symbols."1 Language, consequently, implies a harmony between the spiritual and the material ; — and... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1860 - 292 pages
...inexhaustible dud ready made. " As we go back in history," says Mr. Emerson, " language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry...spiritual facts are represented by natural symbols." To the primal man his words were like the fragments of coloured glass in the kaleidoscope, readily... | |
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