 | William George Davies - 1861 - 200 páginas
...through which, and which alone, what is nearest to ns and noblest in creation executes its marvels. ' On earth, there is nothing great but Man ; in Man, there is nothing great but Mind.' It is not, surely, imagined that there are other laws and processes of thought competent to the human... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1861 - 790 páginas
...He infused a new spirit into the lecture-room, and trained his students to independent thought : " On earth there is nothing great but man / in man there is nothing great but mind" — was the motto, which each one saw on entering his class. He was now in the fulness of his mental... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 páginas
...vast increase of influence within the last thirty years. " The proper study of mankind is man :" " On earth, there is nothing great but man ; in man, there is nothing great but mind :" — these accepted faiths of the last age have had their dominion seriously weakened in the present... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1861 - 792 páginas
...learning. He infused a new spirit into the lecture-room, and trained his students to independent thought: " On earth there is nothing great but man • in man there is nothing great but mind"—was the motto, which each one saw on entering his class. He was now in the fulness of his mental... | |
 | 1861 - 638 páginas
...that yet higher truth is expressed in the golden words but recently rescued from-long oblivion — " On earth there is nothing great but man ; In man there is nothing great but mfnd." • Icones, p. 51. DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. These four views of the brain of the orang are copies... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 476 páginas
...confessedly of all studies the highest and the most interesting. " On earth," says an ancient philosopher, " there is nothing great but man ; in man, there is nothing great but mind."" No other study fills and satisfies the soul like the study of itself. No other science presents an... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 584 páginas
...confessedly of all studies the highest and the most interesting. " On earth," says an ancient philosopher, "there is nothing great but man in man, there is nothing great but mind." No other study fills and satisfies the soul like the study of itself. No other science presents an... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 626 páginas
...confessedly of all studies the highest and the most interesting. " On earth," says an ancient philosopher, " there is nothing great but man ; in man, there is nothing great but mind." No other study fills and satisfies the soul like the study of itself. No other science presents an... | |
 | 1862 - 832 páginas
...with ./Eschylus, Sophocles, and above all with Shakspeare, in whom the sentiment is fully borne out: "On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." The Spanish dramatists have not attained unto these other three. Calderón walks with Ben Jonson and... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1863 - 542 páginas
...THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. " He haili thcwed thee, O Man, what Ugood."— Micm. HAWRD COLLEGE LIBRAHX ON EARTH, THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MAN; IN MAN, THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MIND. ESSAYS ON TUB ACTIVE POWERS OF MAN, BY THOMAS REID, DD, FRSE, PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE... | |
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... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind. 
