 | David Thom - 1863 - 426 páginas
...attractions to those of the in/mtol sciences. Sir W. Hamilton's motto sums up his favorite investigation : " On earth there is nothing great but man: in man there is nothing great but mind." Subsidiary to the study of human nature, he had surveyed the fields of Ethnology and Philology, brought... | |
 | Robert Anchor Thompson - 1863 - 922 páginas
...concourse of atoms. But this is only the beginning of its difficulty. Man is the wonder of creation. " In earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind." Such, however, is not the doctrine of the atheist. He must rob the mind of every thing that makes it... | |
 | Frederick Hinde - 1864 - 150 páginas
...Mind ; " and Sir William Hamilton's well-known motto, prefixed to his edition of Reid's works, was, " On earth there is nothing great but Man ; in Man there is nothing great but Mind." Pervaded with the good impression these passages convey, and remembering, with Fenelon, that, though... | |
 | James Pyle Wickersham - 1864 - 412 páginas
...from the brutes that perish, is his mind; and it is mostly with this that the teacher is concerned. If "On earth, there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind," how transcendently great is the teacher's work! The education of a human soul! The training of an immortal... | |
 | James Pyle Wickersham - 1864 - 402 páginas
...from the brutes that perish, is his mind; and it is mostly with this that the teacher is concerned. If "On earth, there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind," how transcendently great is the teacher's work! The education of a human soul ! The training of an... | |
 | Samuel Gosnell Green - 1865 - 312 páginas
...God himself. There is in all this a kind of chain reaching from earth to heaven. As a wise man has said, " On earth there is nothing great but man : in man there is nothing great but the soul." But I think we should add, "In the soul there is nothing great but goodness." This is what... | |
 | John Watts - 1865 - 206 páginas
...gold of the prizemen of past sessions, and the suggestive motto above the professor's chair — • " On earth there is nothing great but man ; In man there is nothing great but mind." The professor enters, already endeared to his students by his ancient and renowned lineage, and by... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1866 - 540 páginas
... 5 • LECTUKES METAPHYSICS AND LOGIC ON EARTH, THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MAN ; IN MAN, THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BDT MINI). METAPHYSICS AND LOGIC BY SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, BART. PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1866 - 1222 páginas
...boundaries of my present transitory life."* '* Cr. d. pr. V. Beschluss. This suggests Prudeiitius. [A similar contrast, but in different points of view,...of an old philosophical physician — of Sir Thomas Broumc : — " The earth is a point, not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly... | |
 | 1866 - 534 páginas
...may, intellect, reason, understanding, it is by this gift he is crowned lord of this lower creation. " On earth there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind." This is that vision and faculty divine, that breath of the inspiration of the Almighty, that beam from... | |
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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. 
