 | George MacDonald - English literature - 1868 - 356 pages
...Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! Later in the decade, comes Sir Henry Wotton. It will be seen that I have arranged my singers with... | |
 | Joseph Bullar - 1868 - 188 pages
...Light which will show it where it can get strength — even by means of this very weakness. " Unless above himself he can erect himself, How poor a thing is man ! " •OBSERVATION DEVELOPED IN SOCIAL CULTURE. ATTENTION to others being an essential point in good... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - Prose poems, English - 1869 - 448 pages
...vitality, this was perhaps greater than sweeping over glad blue waters or inditing immortal novels. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is Man. Unless above himself, how poor a thing; yet, if beyond and outside of his world, how useless and purposeless... | |
 | Thomas Binney - Sermons, English - 1869 - 418 pages
...virtues ; and a poet of our own day, reasoning on purely natural principles, says, or sings, — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself,— how poor a thing is man ! " Fearing, then, we may almost suppose, that Christians might learn to be temperate and patient rather... | |
 | Arthur Rigg - Bible and science - 1869 - 124 pages
...every political move : whilst we bow down ourselves in the House of Mammon, unconscious that " unless above himself he can erect himself how poor a thing is man ;" whilst we are doing all this for at best perishing treasures, and very often for perplexing and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1870 - 316 pages
...catholic and universal ends. A puny creature walled in on every side, as Daniel wrote, — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " b«t when his will leans on a principle, when he is the vehicle of ideas, he borrows their omnipotence.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 284 pages
...catholic and universal ends. A puny creature walled in on every side, as Daniel wrote, — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " but when his will leans on a principle, when he is the vehicle of ideas, he borrows their omnipotence.... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 474 pages
...Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is Man ! ' * Happy is he who lives to understand, Not human nature only, but explores All natures, — to... | |
 | E.C. Wines - Corrections - 1871 - 680 pages
...experience has taught to other peoples in their area of action. What is true of the individual that " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " is equally true of states and kingdoms and empires. As no individual can stand alone, so neither... | |
 | 1871 - 854 pages
...experience has taught to other peoples in their area of action. What is true of the individual that " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " is equally true of states and kingdoms and empires. As no individual can stand alone, so neither... | |
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Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man... 
