 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;...  Works - Page 31by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | 1891
...back to their roots, are found to have been formerly the names of material things. "'Right originally means straight ; wrong means twisted ; spirit primarily...a line ; supercilious the raising of the eyebrow. Most of the process by which this transformation is made is hidden from us in the remote time when... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1893 - 640 pages
...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 lines supercilious, \\\e raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote... | |
 | 1873
...all, that all words which express abstract ideas are borrowed from some material appearance. " Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind ; transgression, the crossing of i • Lectures an tke Science of Lamftutft, H. p. Tlt Letters, Lectures, and Rcaitva, by HL Mamd, p.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 461 pages
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily...a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow. We'say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought; and thought and emotion are words... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight ; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily...and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most of thf process by which this transformation is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language... | |
 | Arthur John Fynn - 1907 - 275 pages
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted; Spirit primarily...heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought. . . . Light and darkness are our familiar expressions for knowledge and ignorance; and heat for love.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pages
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily...transformation is made, is hidden from us in the remote tune when language was framed; but the same tendency may be daily observed in children. Children and... | |
 | W. F. Bolton - 1966 - 240 pages
...fact, if traced to its root, is found to be 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 191 sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most... | |
 | Kenneth Burke - 1966 - 514 pages
...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; supereilious, the raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought;... | |
 | Stephen Prickett - 1988 - 305 pages
...borrowed from a material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit means primarily wind; transgression the crossing of a line; supercilious the raising of the eyebrows. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought, and thought and emotion... | |
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