 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.  The Metropolitan - Page 2931846Full view - About this book
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 330 pages
...time, One mighty countenance of perfect calm, Awful with most invariable eyes." TBNNYSON. The Mystic, " Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned to-morrow ; there is not any literary... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 382 pages
...time, One mighty countenance of perfect calm, Awful with most invariable eyes." TEHNYSON. The Mystic. " Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then nil things nre at risk. There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned to-morrow , there... | |
 | 1845 - 648 pages
...in íEsop, by wringing the neck of poor Chanticleer to retard the dawn ! " Beware," says Emerson, " when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk — the very hopes of man, the religion of nations, the manners and morals of mankind are all at the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on...where it will end. There is not a piece of science, hut its flank may be turned to-morrow ; there is not any literary reputation, not the so-called eternal... | |
 | 1848 - 916 pages
...confess, however, that we are led to muse upon his own words ; " Beware when God lets loose a Clunker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. There is not a piece of science, but its... | |
 | 1849 - 1052 pages
...itself to most advantage, is perhaps the following:—" Beware when the great God lets loose a thin&er on this planet! Then all things are at risk! It is...great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it witt end! There is not a piece of science, but its flank may bo turned to-morrow; there is not any... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so 'ar back as to preclude a still higher vision. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on...when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, aand no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. There is not a piece of science, but its flank... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so *ar back as to preclude a still higher vision. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on...planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conSagration has broken out in a great city, aand no man knows what is safe, or where it will end-... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1850 - 232 pages
...prejudice works out, in the end, a change in governments and laws. " Beware," says a brilliant essayist, " when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk." Authors are thus entitled to a prominent rank among the producing classes, and their lives deserve... | |
 | 1855 - 684 pages
...reads much, is a great observer, and looks quite through the deeds of men.' ' Beware,' says Emerson, ' when the great GOD lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk.' Are thinkers so rare that all the moral, social, and political elements of society may be disturbed... | |
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