 | Sir William Hamilton - 1863 - 296 페이지
...alone which constitutes man's grand and distinctive preeminence. "Man," says the great Pascal, " is but a reed — the very frailest in nature ; but he is a reed that thinks. It needs not that the whole universe should arm to crush him. He dies from an exhalation, from a drop... | |
 | William Henry Green - 1865 - 484 페이지
...elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me, I am the image of God, as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much hath not his introduction...lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man." That doing, the work of the physician becomes more intelligent, nobler, and his life rises above that... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1866 - 900 페이지
...owes no homage unto the snn. Nature tells me, as well as Scripture, that I am the image of God. He that understands not thus much, hath not his introduction...is only a reed, the very frailest in nature ; but ho is a reed that thinks. " Spirat enim majora animus seque altius efiert Sideribus, transitque vias... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1868 - 336 페이지
...heavens, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of God as well as scripture. He that understands not thus much, hath not his introduction or first lesson, and hath yet to begin the alphabet of man." Coleridge and others have spoken of the egotism of Browne;... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1869 - 240 페이지
...elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me, I am the image of God, as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much hath not his introduction...first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man. Let me not injure the felicity of others, if I say I am as happy as any. "Ruat coelum, fiat voluntas... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1869 - 392 페이지
...elements, and owing no homage unto the sun. He that understands not this much, hath not his introductions or first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man." ELECTION, General — hiring servants at a statute fair, which, however, will never be a fair statute,... | |
 | Raphael De Cordova Lewin - 1870 - 94 페이지
...created, and it is only his reason which gives him that capacity. "Man," says the great Pascal, "is but a reed, — the very frailest in nature ; but he is a reed that thinks. It needs not that the whole universe should arm to crush him. He dies from an exhalation, from a drop... | |
 | 1872 - 554 페이지
...life is despicable, it follows that his preaching must fall into contempt. — St. Gregory. Man is but a reed — the very frailest in nature; but he is a reed that thinks. It needs not that the whole universe should arm to crush him. He dies from an exhalation, from a drop... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1874 - 132 페이지
...elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of God, as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much hath not his introduction...first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man. Let me not injure the felicity of others if I say I am as happy as any. " Ruat ccclum, fiat iioluntas... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 414 페이지
...yet to begin the itlphabet of wan," Nature tells me I am the image of God as well as scripture. He that understands not thus much, hath not his introduction or first lesson, and hath yet to begin the alphabet of man." Coleridge and others have spoken of the egotism of Browne ;... | |
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Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I am the image... 
