 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 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 - 1870 - 592 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 - 1875 - 584 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... | |
 | 1875 - 324 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. 5. It has moreover been observed, that the idioms of all languages approach each other in passages... | |
 | William Smith (F.S.A.S.) - 1876 - 344 pages
...and no caprice of fashion can destroy. — IU\SER. " As we go back In history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry,...symbols. The same symbols are found to make the original elemenU of all languages. It has moreover been observed, that the idioms of all languages approach... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...who have only what is necessary, converse in figures. As we go buck in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry;...spiritual facts are represented by natural symbols. The Mine symbols are found to make the original elements of all languages. It has moreover been observed,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 392 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 - 1883 - 428 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... | |
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