 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
 | Guy L. Rotella - 1991 - 280 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Graham Clarke - 1993 - 488 pages
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 | Peter Brooks - 1993 - 358 pages
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 | 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... | |
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