 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
 | Christopher Newfield - 1996 - 294 strani
...intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily...crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyehrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought; and thought and emotion are... | |
 | Gyorgyi Voros - 1997 - 216 strani
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 | Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 strani
...historical matrix that he has already noted in Nature. "We say the heart to express emotion," he explains, "the head to denote thought; and thought and emotion...the process by which this transformation is made," he goes on to say, "is hidden from us in the remote time when language was framed" (W, 1: 25-26). Emerson's... | |
 | Jerome Loving - 2000 - 642 strani
...572-77 and 591-97). Emerson writes in Nature (1836): "Right means straight; wrong means twitted. Sp1r1t primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing...a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow." 104. WWC, I, 461; and James Redpath to Walt Whitman, October 20, 1885 (LC). 105. C. Ill, 411-13. 106.... | |
 | James McKusick - 2000 - 284 strani
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 | Andrew Delbanco - 2001 - 520 strani
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