 ... counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect,...  Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. - Page 195by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius ; atues, or laws. It is the privilege of any human work...manners, and deals on even terms with men of any conditi soul have its way through us ; in other words, to engage us to obey. Of this pure nature every man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius ; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ;...All reform aims in some one particular to let the soul have its way through us ; in other words, to engage us to obey. Of this pure nature every man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius ; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ;...And the blindness of the intellect begins when it O would be something of itself. The weakness of the will begins when the individual would be something... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius ; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ;...All reform aims in some one particular to let the soul have its way through us ; in other words, to engage us to obey. Of this pure nature every man... | |
 | Warren Felt Evans - 1884 - 236 pages
...can do nothing of himself," or by himself. Echoing this necessary and eternal truth, Emerson says : " The blindness of the intellect begins when it would...when the individual would be something of himself." It was a maxim of the Hermetic philosophy, that "power belongs to him who knows," which refers to the... | |
 | Henry Bellyse Baildon - 1884 - 66 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect it is genius, when it breathes through his will it is virtue, when it flows through his affection it is love." Again : — " The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of... | |
 | Henry Bellyse Baildon - 1884 - 64 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect it is genius, when it breathes through his will it is virtue, when it flows through his affection it is love." Again : — " The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of... | |
 | Warren Felt Evans - 1885 - 258 pages
...can do nothing of himself," or by himself. Echoing this necessary and eternal truth, Emerson says: " The blindness of the intellect begins when it would...when the individual would be something of himself." It was a maxim of the Hermetic philosophy, that "power belongs to him who knows," which refers to the... | |
 | Warren Felt Evans - 1885 - 238 pages
...and eternal truth, Emerson says : " The Blindness of the intellect begins 30 THE PRIMITIVE MIND-CURE. when it would be something of itself. The weakness...when the individual would be something of himself." It was a maxim of the Hermetic philosophy, that "power belongs to him who knows," which refers to the... | |
 | Luther M. Marston - 1887 - 150 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius ; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when it flows through his affection, it is love." Here, then, we catch a glimpse of the grand and inspiring thought that, in our search after truth,... | |
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