 ... 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 - 1899 - 380 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...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 is... | |
 | 1900 - 556 pages
...how to know our potentiality, and how to accelerate the process of its development Emerson says that "All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the great soul have its way through us." This explains the "regeneration" of a man, or the seemingly sudden onward movement of a nation. "God... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 464 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 - 1903 - 460 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 ;...the intellect begins when it would be something of itself.1 The weakness of the will begins when the individual would be something of himself. All reform... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 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 ;...the intellect begins when it would be something of itself.1 The weakness of the will begins when the individual would be something of himself. All reform... | |
 | 1909 - 366 pages
...our knees to bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius ; when it breathes through will, it is virtue ; when it flows through his affection,...the individual would be something of himself. All reforms aim, in some one particular, to let the Soul have its way through us ; in other words, to engage... | |
 | 1904 - 214 pages
...itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. — Goethe. Evening. The weakness of the will begins when the individual...All reform aims in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey. — Emerson. DECEMBER 15. Morning.... | |
 | John Horne - 1904 - 172 pages
...not possessed, and that cannot be possessed. 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." — Emerson. "Truth consists in a sum of The Truth, a Sum of extremes, not in a via media Extremes.... | |
 | Charles Brodie Patterson - 1906 - 266 pages
...soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. * * * 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." THE KINGDOM OF MAN "It is not what a man gets, but what a man is, that... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1906 - 320 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." The... | |
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