... 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
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1887 - 360 pages
...Calvinist. " When," Emerson says, " this soul breathes through the intellect of man, it is genius ; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when it flows through his affection, it is love." The impotence of man when deprived of this divine inspiration and support has hardly ever been more... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 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...the great soul have its way through us ; in other words, to engage us to obey. Of this pure nature every man is at some time sensible. Language cannot... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...breathes through his intellect, it is j genius ; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when j it flows through his affection, it is love. And the...All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us ; in other words, to engage us to obey. X Of this pure nature every man... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1888 - 232 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. . . . All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the great soul have its way through us." Starting... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1888 - 228 pages
...when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when it flows through his affection, it is love. ... All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the great soul have its way through us." Starting from this postulate, the writer works his way through a number of beautiful illustrations... | |
| A. O. Butler - 1889 - 448 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 affections it is love. * * * All reform aims in some one particular to let the soul have its way through... | |
| 1892 - 390 pages
...sea". Emerson says of the Over-soul, " • When it breathes through man's intellect, it is genius ; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when it flows through his affection, it is love". Now Carlyle says of Goethe : " In his inspired melody, even in these rag-gathering and rag-burning... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 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 ;...let the great soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey. Of this pure nature every man is at some time sensible. Language cannot... | |
| James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1894 - 926 pages
...this is the only sovereign agent. Of the work of this mind, history is the record."3 " The weakness of the intellect begins when it would be something...the great soul have its way through us ; in other words, to engage us to obey."4 This one supreme and universal mind is God Himself. Hence man is an... | |
| Paul Tyner - 1898 - 580 pages
...criticism concerning the movement, and always for at least one good poem. ONENESS.* BY PAUL TYNER. All reform aims in some one particular to let the great soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey There is no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and... | |
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