 ... 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
 | Oscar W. Firkins - 1915 - 404 pages
...outranks all the rest of the essay: "When it breathes through his [man's] intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love." l For the rest, the impression we get is vast and fluid — oceanic, in short; with men as arms or... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 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... | |
 | Henry David Gray - 1917 - 130 pages
...by Emerson as the "fall of man" (III, 77). Spirit no longer works according to its own perfect laws. "And the blindness of the intellect begins when it...when the individual would be something of himself" (II, 255). This doctrine of the "lapse," which Bronson Alcott had absorbed probably from his reading... | |
 | Henry David Gray - 1917 - 122 pages
...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. ... It contradicts all experience. ... It abolishes time and space. . . . The soul knows only the soul;... | |
 | Swami Paramananda - 1918 - 92 pages
...his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; wEen If breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows...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... | |
 | John Haynes Holmes, Harvey Dee Brown, Helen Edmunds Redding, Theodora Goldsmith - 1918 - 120 pages
...whole, the universal beauty, the eternal One. 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. Let man learn the revelation, that the highest dwells with him, that the sources of nature are his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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-V And the blindness of the intellect begins, when it would be something of itself. The weakness... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 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... | |
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