 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau - 1994 - 148 pages
...primarily means wind teansgression, the crossing of a line, supercilious, the raising of the eyehrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought, and thought and motion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most of the... | |
 | Albert-Reiner Glaap - 1992 - 252 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...the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising ofthe eyebrow}9 Daß sich Whitman an diese Stelle tatsächlich erinnerte, beweist sein später Aufsatz... | |
 | Nathaniel Mackey - 1993 - 332 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...crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.12 Still, the gulf persists, etymologies notwithstanding. The spoken word, however much it... | |
 | Roy Harris - 1996 - 350 pages
...all, that all words which express abstract ideas are borrowed from some material appearance. 'Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily...line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.' We know that anima in Latin means the wind, the breath of living beings, life, and lastly soul. Sallust... | |
 | Christopher Newfield - 1996 - 294 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...crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyehrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought; and thought and emotion are... | |
 | Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 pages
...historical matrix that he has already noted in Nature. "We say the heart to express emotion," he explains, "the head to denote thought; and thought and emotion...the process by which this transformation is made," he goes on to say, "is hidden from us in the remote time when language was framed" (W, 1: 25-26). Emerson's... | |
 | Jerome Loving - 2000 - 642 pages
...572-77 and 591-97). Emerson writes in Nature (1836): "Right means straight; wrong means twitted. Sp1r1t primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing...a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow." 104. WWC, I, 461; and James Redpath to Walt Whitman, October 20, 1885 (LC). 105. C. Ill, 411-13. 106.... | |
 | Karen Jacobs - 2001 - 340 pages
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. . . . We 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 appropri32 See Whicher 1953 on Emerson's... | |
 | Kenneth Burke - 2003 - 412 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...things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Jeremy Bentham would deal with considerations of this sort, perhaps not tough-mindedly but at least... | |
 | Martin Japtok - 2003 - 382 pages
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.... We 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... | |
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