 ... 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
 | John Drinkwater - 1927 - 604 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 soul have its way through us; in other words... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1924 - 216 pages
...in which they lie. When the soul, whose organ he is, 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. The blindness of the intellect begins, when it would be something of itself. The weakness of the will... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 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. —THE OVER-SOUL Art, in the artist, is proportion, or a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; antique p S 5 soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey. Of this pure nature every man is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius p«vhen 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... | |
 | Emory Holloway - 1926 - 378 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." "The soul circumscribes all things. As I have said, it contradicts all experience. In like manner it... | |
 | Helen Keller - 1927 - 230 pages
...attitude, and wrote: "The weakness of the will begins when the individual would be something of himself. And the blindness of the intellect begins when it would be something of itself." Nothing but letting the Divine Life have its way through us will deliver the world. This is the true... | |
 | 1907 - 474 pages
...in which they lie. When the soul, whose organ he is, 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. The blindness of the intellect begins when it would be something of itself. The weakness of the will... | |
 | Bernard M. G. Reardon - 1966 - 420 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 - 1979 - 434 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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