 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. c A man/ said Oliver Cromwell, ( never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.' Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol, are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pages
...Commentaries, the radical elements of the present French character? 2. " A man," says Oliver Cromwell, " never rises so high, as when he knows not whither he is going." 3. The virtue, that vain persons affect to despite, might have xotwi'them ; while the beauty, they... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...Commentaries, the radical elements of the present French character? 2. " A man," says Oliver Cromwell, " never rises so high, as when he knows not whither he is going." 3. The virtue, that vain persons affect to despise, might have saved them ; while the beauty, they... | |
 | Charles P. Bronson - 1845 - 438 pages
...Commentaries, the radical elements of the present French character? 2. " A man," says Oliver Cromwell, " never rises so high, as when he knows not whither he is going.1' 3. Tfte virtue, that vain persons affect to desii*e, might ha-ve saved them ; while the öeauy,... | |
 | 1890 - 544 pages
...who promise greater returns in this world. I am often reminded of the saying of Oliver Cromwell : " A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." We fall below the highest possibilities of faith and power when we wait for other motives than those... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. " A man," said Oliver Cromwell, " never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. " A man," said Oliver Cromwell, " never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. " A man," said Oliver Cromwell, " never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol, are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. " A Jnan," taid Oliver Cromwell, " never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. "A man," said Oliver Cromwell, " never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular... | |
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A man," said Oliver Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going. 
