...move in their ordered ellipses, to originate a spiritual vitality, — this was perhaps greater. " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor .a thing is man." Unless above himself; yet, if beyond or outside of his world, how useless and purposeless a thing....

...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 ! And how turmoiled are they that level lie With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence ; That...

...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 ! And how turmoiled are they that level lie With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence ; That...

...troops of friends, he must earn them by a virtuous youth, a useful manhood, and a well-spent life. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man! To a soul that ever felt the sting Of sorrow, sorrow is a sacred thing. FABLE CI. THE HORSE AND THE...

...rate, they are not above it ; and culture is that which raises us from a lower level to a higher, " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " Not, alas ! (except under rare and happy circumstances) from the minister, priest, or rabbi, whose...

...and what is the nature of the work ? 15. Name the authors of the following lines : — (1) ' And that unless above himself he can Erect himself — how poor a thing is man ! ' (2) ' Under this curled marble of thine own, Sleep, rare tragedian, Shakspere, sleep alone ! '...

...dreaded.- He 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...

...rate, they are not above it ; and culture is that which raises us from a lower level to a higher. " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man !" Not, alas ! (except under rare and happy circumstances) from the minister, priest, or rabbi, whose...

...that 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...

...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...