 | Henry David Thoreau - 1996 - 220 стор.
...is just that thing. He shows himself superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man! Newspaper editors argue also that it is a proof of his insanity that he thought he was appointed to... | |
 | Mary White Ovington - 1996 - 188 стор.
...familiar with years before. But instead, on one of these walls, in a neat handwriting, I read: "Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man." And below: "No conflict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself. But in this we must continually... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 стор.
...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 ! DANHD.* I HAVE thus endeavored, with an anxiety which may perhaps have misled me into prolixity,... | |
 | John Edward Bruce - 2002 - 188 стор.
...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! 37. This number is problematic. We are told that Sadipe is three years younger than his brother Mojola,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 228 стор.
...catholic and universal ends. A puny creature walled in on every side, as Donne 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 onmipotence.... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 стор.
...Excursion, especially in book 4. Interestingly, Emerson andThoreau both quote a couplet of Seneca: "Unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man." Emerson cites the couplet, in 1862, to illustrate how "puny" one is unless one becomes "a vehicle of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2007 - 554 стор.
...for 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.... | |
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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... 
