 Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line;...  Works - Stran 31avtor: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1873 - 800 strani
...abstract ideas are borrowed from some material appearance. ' Bight means straight; uwn^meanstwisted. Spirit primarily means wind ; transgression, the crossing...line ; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.' We know that anima in Latin means the wind, the breath of living beings, Ufe, and lastly soul. Sallust... | |
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