 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 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...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. There is not a piece of science,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1846 - 514 pages
...CROMWELL.* AMERICAN Emerson, in his own quaint and startling manner, in one of his essays, says, " Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on...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. There is not a piece of science,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 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...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. There is not a piece of science,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 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...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. There is not a piece of science,... | |
 | 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...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. There is not a piece of science,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 1849 - 538 pages
...so mischievous in its effects) displays itself to most advantage, is perhaps the following : — " Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on...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 ! There is not a piece of... | |
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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. There is not a piece of science but its flank... 
