 Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents.  Nature - Page 69by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 74 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...hundreds of years. It is kept in check by death and infancy. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. follower of the moon. Yet sometimes he starts m hie slumber, and wonders st himself and his house,... | |
 | Job Durfee (Class of 1813) - 1849 - 562 pages
...angelic sphere. Well and beautifully has it been said, that " infancy is the perpetual Messiah which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to Paradise." Thus formed and prepared by its great prototype, the Me comes forth, a distinct being, into the sensitive... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...here only some faint glimmerings of sense. TV. From AFFECTATION OF METAPHYSICAL DEPTH AND ACCURACY. " Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated...spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents." V. From the LOVE OF PARADOX. " The Gospel appeals not only to our sense of duty, but to all our selfishness."... | |
 | Day Kellogg Lee - 1854 - 368 pages
...pronunciation. Anna paused and repeated this passage as she read : " Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the- arms of fallen 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,... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...disorganizations should last for hundreds of years. 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 ambition and to vices." The same idea is expressed in the old play of the Double... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pages
...glimmerings of sense. IV. Obscurity may arise from AFFECTATION OF METAPHYSICAL DEPTH AND ACCURACY. " Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated...spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents." V. Obscurity may arise from the LOVE OF PARADOX. " The Gospel appeals not only to our sense of duty,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 516 pages
...framed by nature that their charm is irresistible." We have here only some faint glimmerings of sense. was permeated and dissolved by spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents." V. Obscurity may arise from the LOVE OF PARADOX. " The Gospel appeals, not only to our sense of duty,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pages
...glimmerings of sense. IV. Obscurity may arise from AFFECTATION OF METAPHYSICAL, DEPTH AND ACCURACY. " Man is the dwarf of himself. Once he was permeated...spirit. He filled nature with his overflowing currents." V. Obscurity may arise from the LOVE OF PARADOX. "The Gospel appeals not only to our sense of duty,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...hundreds of years. It is kept in check by death and infancy. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with...moon: from man, the sun ; from woman, the moon. The !aws of his mind, the periods of his actions, externized themselves into day and night, into the year... | |
 | 1866 - 268 pages
...be joyous and young. The poet never loses his childhood. " Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise." The first miracle was the turning of water into wine to enliven a marriage festival. It is no crime... | |
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