 A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal as gently as we awake from dreams.  Works - Page 74by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...ox. I3ut who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit Ï A man is a god in ruins. When men arc innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...the immortal as gently as we awake from dreams. Now, tic world would be insane and rabid, if these disorganizations should last for hundreds of years. It... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...ox. But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit? " A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...Now, the world would be insane and rabid, if these disorganisations should last for hundreds of years. It is kept in check by death and infancy. Infancy... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...points, and all history is but the epoch of one degradation. " A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...paradise. " Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents. Out from him sprang... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...ox. But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit! " A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...paradise. " Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents. Out from him sprang... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...ox. But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit ? ' A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...paradise. ' Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents. Out from him sprang... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...ox. But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit ? ' A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...death and infancy. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, Avhich comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. ' Man is the... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...it occurs in a work of popular literature at the present day. " The world," says our contemporary, " would be insane and rabid if these disorganizations...It is kept in check by death and infancy. Infancy comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to Paradise. Death puts a limit to... | |
 | Day Kellogg Lee - 1854 - 368 pages
...Irish brogue was the charm of her pronunciation. Anna paused and repeated this passage as she read : " Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into...men, and pleads with them to return to paradise." Then she turned her blue eyes in tears aloft, and after a moment's silence, which affected us all,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...ox. But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit ? ' A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...paradise. ' Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents. Out from him sprang... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...ox. But who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit ? ' A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into...and infancy. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which conies into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. ' Man is the dwarf... | |
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