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" Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet... "
Essays. 1901 - Page 253
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901
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A New Spirit of the Age, Volume 2

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...
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A New Spirit of the Age, Volume 1

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...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 16

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...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle Platonizes. By going one step farther back in thought, discordant...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 this...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle Platonizes. By going one step farther back in thought, discordant...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 this...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...Plato are reckoned the re spective beads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle Platonizes. By going one step farther back in thought, discordant...principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a stiD higher vision. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things...
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Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life

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...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 45

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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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 45

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1855 - 704 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 tilings are at risk.' Are thinkers so rare that all the moral, social, and political elements of society...
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The Lover's Seat. Kathemérina Or Common Things in Relation to ..., Volume 2

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 368 pages
...the * London Journal. respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle Platonizes. By going one step farther back in thought, discordant...so far back as to preclude a still higher vision." So our wise old dramatist says, ti I this infer, That many things, having full reference To one consent,...
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