 ... 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
 | William James Dawson - 1906 - 324 pages
...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 same truth is put even more felicitously in his lecture on Montaigne. ' ' The lesson of life is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 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... | |
 | 1909 - 540 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 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...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... | |
 | Benjamin Orange Flower, Charles Zueblin - 1910 - 620 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." — Ralph Waldo Emerson. MODERNISM B v Rev. AH С. Morse, MA, BD AT the time of his election it was... | |
 | Benjamin Orange Flower, Charles Zueblin - 1910 - 614 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." —Ralph Waldo Emerson. MODERNISM By Rev. AHC Morse, MA, BD AT the time of his election it was known... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 196 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...let the great soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey. The Over-Soul. MANKIND have, in all ages, attached themselves to a few... | |
 | Montrose Jonas Moses - 1911 - 364 pages
...make our knees bend." And he continues thus: "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." Hence Maeterlinck's conviction that it is not the man we know, but his soul. In Emerson, Maeterlinck... | |
 | Meyrick Booth - 1913 - 244 pages
...importance and significance within the whole." Emerson put the matter in a nutshell when he said : " the blindness of the intellect begins when it would be something of itself." 1 Intellect not the Driving Force in History A very considerable section of the modern public is still... | |
 | 1915 - 266 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." "Soul," "truth," "universal mind" are synonymous expressions with Emerson ; and the world's history... | |
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