 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 Seiten
...Predominate : whose utrong effects are such Ac he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that unless @ x {, !' " Happy is he who lives to understand — Not human nature only, but explores All natures, — to... | |
 | George Bruce - 1876 - 642 Seiten
...steered hy enlightened Faith — Not stone-hlind Bigotry which makes God a myth. In truth, " unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " l 1 The last couplet is taken from Daniel. And the prophet is right — it helps to explain, if... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 Seiten
...343-372 373-3S8 i UNIVKRSITY OF OALII'XMNIA. • CHARACTER. CHAPTER I. INFLUENCE OF CHARACTER. * Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man !" — Daniel. "Character Is moral order seen through the medium of an individual uatnro ... , / Wf... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 Seiten
...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. WILLIAM BIRD. [1540-1623.l MY MIND TO MB A KINGDOM IS. MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1877 - 164 Seiten
...we realize the truth of those lines of Daniel which Coleridge was so fond of quoting : — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " Individual man is weak, ignorant, liable to deceive and be deceived. But the human nature of which... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1877 - 164 Seiten
...we realize the truth of those lines of Daniel which Coleridge was so fond of quoting: — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " Individual man is weak, ignorant, liable to deceive and be deceived. But the human nature of which... | |
 | sir Francis Hastings C. Doyle (2nd bart.) - 1877 - 316 Seiten
...temptations to intellectual pride, feeling that to him also were applicable Daniel's lines — Unless, above himself, he can Erect himself— how poor a thing is man ! And, therefore, deciding that, even for a Shakspere, there is and can be nothing better than to pass... | |
 | Sir Francis Hastings Doyle - 1877 - 326 Seiten
...temptations to intellectual pride, feeling that to him also were applicable Daniel's lines — Unless, above himself, he can Erect himself — how poor a thing is man ! And, therefore, deciding that, even for a Shakspere, there is and can be nothing better than to pass... | |
 | Where, Who - 1878 - 186 Seiten
...Bononomi. NEASY lies the head that wears a crown. SHAKSPEAEE, K.Henry 17. pt. ii. act iii. sc. 1. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! S. DANIEL, To the Cowntess of Cumberland. True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.... | |
 | James Burton (schoolmaster.) - 1878 - 124 Seiten
...for the conjunctions you find in them — I fear not wave iv>r wind. Take heed lest you fall. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man. Not a minute stopped or stayed he. His cheeks were not wrinkled, nor dimmed his eagle eye. Not in sheet... | |
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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... 
