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" ... real and insurmountable ; and to speak with levity of these limits, is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. A man is capable of abolishing them both. The spirit sports with time... "
Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion - Page 20
by Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1888
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force...eternity into an hour, Or stretch an hour to eternity.' We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...limits, is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the 10* force of the soul. A man is capable of abolishing...eternity into an hour, Or stretch an hour to eternity." We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the...
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Lost and won; or, The love test, by the author of 'The maid's husband'.

Henrietta Camilla Jenkin - 1846 - 954 pages
...into the high region that poesy delights in — the spirit which sports with men and things — and "Can crowd eternity into an hour, Or stretch an hour to eternity." Life is a perpetual feast to such a mind as this ; such are the thoughts that always find is young,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...insurmountable ; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in .the world, the sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time, — " Can crowd eternity into an hour, Or stretch an hour to eternity."...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...insurmountable ; and to speak with levity of these limits, is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force...eternity into an hour, Or stretch an hour to eternity. We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits, is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force...eternity into an hour, Or stretch an hour to eternity." We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...insurmountable ; and to speak with levity of these limits, is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force...eternity into an hour, Or stretch an hour to eternity." We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...insurmountable ; and to speak with levity of these limits, is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force...eternity into an hour, Or stretch an hour to eternity." We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 pages
...insurmountable ; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time, — " Can crowd eternity into an hour, Or stretch an hour to eternity."...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...insurmountable ; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time, — " Can crowd eternity into an hour, Or stretch an hour to eternity."...
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