 | Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1857 - 722 pages
...last generation, which both the man of business and the scholar by profession would do well to ponder: "An hour of solitude passed in sincere and earnest...conflict with and conquest over a single passion or a subtle bosom-sin, will teach us more of thought, will more effectually awaken the faculty and form... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - 1857 - 354 pages
...generation, which both the man of business and the scholar by profession would do well to ponder: " An hour of solitude passed in sincere and earnest...conflict with and conquest over a single passion or a subtle bosom-sin, will teach us more of thought, will more effectually awaken the faculty and form... | |
 | Joshua Priestley - 1859 - 334 pages
...below your proper humanity you seek a happy life in the region of death. Well saith the moral poet— ' Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how mean a thing is man !' " In a glowing strain she writes to Miss S. R on Nov. 26th : " I have just turned slowly and reluctantly... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1862 - 312 pages
...monster as man would be if cut off from anything higher than himself and beyond the present life. " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how mean a thing is man." But the argument which has probably been most effective with men in general is that indicated in the... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1862 - 320 pages
...monster as man would be if cut off from anything higher than himself and beyond the present life. " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how mean a thing is man." But the argument which has probably been most effective with men in general is that indicated in the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1863 - 502 pages
...it. APHORISM X. Self-Superintendence ! that any thing should overlook itself! Is not this a paradox, and hard to understand ? It is, indeed, difficult,...himself he can Erect himself, how mean a thing is nmn 1 APHORISM XL An hour of solitude passed in sincere and earnest prayer, or the conflict with, and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1863 - 504 pages
...it. APHORISM X. Self-Superintendence ! that any thing should overlook itself! Is not this a paradox, and hard to understand ? It is, indeed, difficult,...truly does the poet exclaim, Unless above himself he caa Erect himself, how mean a thing is man ! APHORISM XL An hour of solitude passed in sincere and... | |
 | 1863 - 924 pages
...sphere of finite causes, could reverse or check the headlong tendency. It had been demonstrated, " Unless above himself he can erect Himself, how mean a thing is man." Nothing remained but that God should interpose, or leave the human race to perish in its corruptions.... | |
 | 1864 - 704 pages
...your proper humanity, you seek a happy life in the region of death. "Well saith the poet — " Uuless above himself he can Erect himself, how mean a thing is man I " rv. Bishop Butler defines happiness to consist in " a faculty having its proper object." " Pleasure,"... | |
 | John FORDYCE (Minister of the Free Church of Scotland.) - 1865 - 56 pages
...overlook itself. Is not this a paradox, and hard to understand ? It is indeed difficult and to the sensualist a direct contradiction ; and yet most truly...himself he can Erect himself, how mean a thing is man ! '" II. Jfarulfos. • |HESE are two — the Conscience and the Will. Both are natives of self, and... | |
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... will teach us more of thought, will more effectually awaken the faculty, and form the habit, of reflection, than a year's study in the schools without them. 
