...your proper humanity, you seek a happy life in the region of death. Well saith the moral poet : — ' Unless above himself he can ^ Erect himself, how mean a thing is man!'" P. 105, 2nd ed.— HNC " The moral poet " is Daniel. For " mean " read " poor." Baxter's memory, or...

...own strength to overcome and expel the evils that are rooted in our nature. " Moralists may preach ' Unless above himself he can erect himself, how mean a thing is man,' but all the preaching in the world is of no avail. The task is an impossibility. The stream cannot...

...own strength to overcome and expel the evils that are rooted in our nature. " Moralists may preach ' Unless above himself he can erect himself, how mean a thing is man,' but all the preaching in the world is of no avail. The task is an impossibility. The stream cannot...

...to ascend, and ascend in their striving. And shall man alone stoop ? Well saith the moral poet — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how mean a thing is man ! " 8. T. COLBEIDOB. 9 April. Insensate things, such as rocks and seas of water, do not grow. Animals...

...proper humanity, you seek a happy life in the region of death. Well earth the moral poet — • " ing (per fiaggellationcm extremam) maul ' CHURCH SINGING. I exceedingly regret that our church pays so little attention to the subject...

...consequence of that fundamental difference, Jacob rose above himself, Esau fell below himself. For "unless above himself he can erect himself, how mean a thing is man." It may, therefore, be said that one of the most patent and reliable indications of our real spiritual...

...fair and clean, but the inside is full of hollowness and corruption. Men realise too late that — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how mean a thing is man." Those men who want to be immortal should remember there is only one thing about us is eternal — that...

...tell the truth. It prohibits the liberty of saying whom you are and what your attainments may be." " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how mean a thing is Man." live the GLEANER. Yours respectfully, /. H. Westcoli, MD, Norwich, NY NOTES AND SOCIETIES. THE Semi-...

...amusements, and live and move and have our being in the infinite littleness of chance desires. Alas ! " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how mean a thing is man ! " In this and the following papers I wish to say a few words about an immeasurable subject. I will...

...the right habitually cherished. One of the aphorisms of the "Aids to Reflection" reads as follows: "An hour of solitude passed in sincere and earnest...with and conquest over a single passion or subtle bosom-sin, will teach us more of thought, will more effectually awaken the faculty and form the habit...