 | 1876 - 802 стор.
...mental science over natural science. He quotes with much approval this ancient declaration, " On earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind." This being his known bias, before examining the definition, an investigator of Nature, a believer in... | |
 | James Stuart (of Stretford.) - 1878 - 244 стор.
...earth," said an ancient philosopher, in words which a great teacher of our own age has made familiar, "there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." And although the assertion is made in too absolute a form, and seems to depreciate the wondrous and... | |
 | William Walters - 1878 - 128 стор.
...glory of man. To use the words of Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON, inscribed in his lecture-room, — "On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." Looking at him in this light, we may well say,— " Sure He that made us with such large discourse,... | |
 | Thomas Edwards - 1878 - 92 стор.
...bundle of sensations ; the thinking part of him is described as a " possibility of feeling." " On Earth there is nothing- great but man : In man there is nothing great but mind." This is the language of Natural Realists and others, who accept the testimony of consciousness and... | |
 | John Stuart Stuart Glennie - 1878 - 458 стор.
...the result of having 1 This puts one in mind of Sir William Hamilton's favourite motto — On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind. As to the authorship of the similar verse — No&c bpy Kai NoDf (iroiiCi, raXXa cw0ii Kai - :• ;.\at... | |
 | Rev. James Wells - 1879 - 320 стор.
...is some truth in the words that were painted over the chair of one of my professors — " On earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind." With many boys and girls the powers of the mind are roused at first as by a kind of sudden conversion.... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1879 - 294 стор.
...HEART, AND THE HAND. When Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON gave utterance to that grand conception, " On earth there is nothing great but man; In man there is nothing great but mind," * he evidently had in view man as a duality. Still further, in this duality, he ranked the mind as... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1879 - 282 стор.
...hands, and had put all things under his feet. The idea suggested by our text is this — " On earth there is nothing great but man : In man there is nothing great but mind." In other words, true greatness consists, not in weight or extension, but in intellectual power and... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1879 - 260 стор.
...hands, and had put all things under his feet. The idea suggested by our text is this — " On earth there is nothing great but man : In man there is nothing great but mind." In other words, true greatness consists, not in weight or extension, but in intellectual power and... | |
 | 1885 - 478 стор.
...University of Edinburgh, the class-room of Logic and Metaphysics — bearing the inscription, " On earth, there is nothing great but man ; in man, there is nothing great but mind" — is overcrowded by the number of students (over 230) ; and in these subjects, as well as in Moral... | |
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... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind. 
