...destination of that being who is empowered to became " so noble in reason, so infinite in faculties; in action, so like an angel, — in apprehension, so like a God ! " ESSAYS ON THE ART OF THINKING. V. THE modes in which the mind may be employed upon the information...

...the paragon of animals," the being " who is in form and movement so express and admirable," who is " in action so like an angel, in apprehension so like a god," is frequently found in a state of moral and physical indigence, a prey to the worst evils that can...

...us? To this plain inference. If there be a law for all other created things, why not for man ! " for man, so noble in reason, so infinite in faculties...in apprehension so like a god ; the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals.'' For him above the rest, whom human pride has taught us to regard as...

...tongue, wafted by the western wind). Can this last, or be meant to last ? that Man, never as now " in action so like an angel! " " in apprehension so like " a god ! " should bring it all in his own person to the permanent conclusion of a forked radish, cast out...

...tongue, wafted by the western wind). Can this last, or be meant to last ? that Man, never as now " in action so like an angel ! " " in apprehension so like " a god ! " should bring it all in his own person to the permanent conclusion of a forked radish, cast out...

...of man "made in the image of God" — to whom was committed the dominion over animate creation — so "noble in reason, so infinite in faculties, in...action so like an angel, in apprehension so like a God ! " How gloomy the reflection ! What room is left for ennobling aims and supernal aspirations ; to...

...go up ? The ocean is before man, shall he embark upon it? Or shall he, who, as Shakspeare says, is "so noble in reason, so infinite in faculties, in...so like an angel, in apprehension so like a God," — shall he be left the only fragmentary being, as if God had completed everything else and had failed...

...go up ? The ocean is before man, shall he embark upon it? Or shall he, who, as Shakspeare says, is "so noble in reason, so infinite in faculties, in...so like an angel, in apprehension so like a God," — shall he be left the only fragmentary being, as if God had completed everything else and had failed...

...of all ages : " so noble in reason, I so infinite in faculties, in form and moving so MIDDLE ЛОЕ. express and admirable, in action so like an angel, in apprehension so like a God ! " to quit, I say, the study of man, that one may employ oneself in studying an oyster or a shrimp....

...aside the old and inspiring conviction — that Man, " so noble in reason, so infinite in faculty, in form and moving so express and admirable, in action...so like an angel, in apprehension so like a god," originated because God made him out of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath...