The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connection of thought. Essays: Second Series - Page 24by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought. The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is... | |
| 1872 - 278 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene to the obscene, becomes...illustrious, spoken in a new connection of thought," I can not call to mind a juster train Sexual Wit Defended. Better Fun than Fury in Love. of thought... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What "Animal Kingdom," he broaches the subject, in a remarkable...note : — ' ' In our doctrine of Representations circumeision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive. Small and mean things... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 318 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 386 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes...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 is expressed, the more pungent... | |
| William Sloane Kennedy - 1926 - 328 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes...illustrious spoken in a new connection of thought." "Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind," says Emerson. 1904 Feb.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought. The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is... | |
| George Kateb - 2002 - 278 pages
...and affirming" (p. 452). His whole work teaches that "Thought makes every thing fit for use ... What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes...illustrious, spoken in a new connection of thought" (p. 454). What is it that can dispose a person to receptivity and response? I believe that the most... | |
| Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought. The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is... | |
| Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 284 pages
...vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in connection to thought. [E, 229] Barbara Packer notes that Emerson took great pleasure in believing... | |
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