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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... "
Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher - Page 192
1865
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Essays

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...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...
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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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The Metropolitan, Volume 45

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...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...
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Essays

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...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...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

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...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...
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Essays, orations and lectures

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...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...
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 5-6

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...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

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...things are at risk. It is as 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...
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