 | Alexander Hardie - 1924 - 250 páginas
...Blessed Lord are to the mind of man. Paul even says, "But we have the mind of Christ." — I Cor. 2:16. "On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind." — Phavorinus. It does appear that the Governing Boards, especially of Denominational Colleges, ought... | |
 | Mary Olmstead Stanton - 1924 - 1290 páginas
...competent for any of these mighty works ; and when the eminent metaphysician, Sir W. Hamilton, wrote " On Earth there is nothing great but man, In man there is nothing great but mind," he spoke from the old metaphysical stand-point, and not from a scientific understanding of man. Man's... | |
 | John Kelman - 1924 - 210 páginas
...is worth study." In this great dictum he reminds us of Sir William Hamilton's equally famous saying: "On earth there is nothing great but man: in man there is nothing great but mind." It was under the influence of this conviction that Browning carved those wonderful statues which he... | |
 | S. V. Rasmussen, S ..... V ..... Rasmussen - 1925 - 186 páginas
...words may stand as an expression of Hamilton's enthusiastic pursuit of his studies of the human mind. "On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind", is a quotation of an ancient philosopher which he was fond of citing. His life was the quiet life of... | |
 | Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee - 1927 - 558 páginas
...have exercised upon the moral and general advancement of his countrymen. Au eminent philosopher has said : — "On earth there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind." And the highest phase of this greatest thing on earth the human mind is its spiritual aspect. It is... | |
 | John Maxcy Zane - 1927 - 90 páginas
...nation. Leib' nitz.summing up, perhaps, a choral ode of Sophocles in the Antigone, says: "In the world there is nothing great but man, in man there is nothing great but mind," and the secret of Roman grandeur was, and XX I hope again will be, this Roman mind and character. We... | |
 | Edwin Reuben Wagner - 1928 - 80 páginas
...believe that America is not rich or prosperous. The greatest modifying influence on man is religion; for on earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but Christian mind. Everyone has two parents, four grandparents, eight greatgrandparents, etc. If we were... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 494 páginas
...everything ; if ill packed, next to nothing. — AUGUSTUS T. HARE. Only dead men never change their minds. On earth there is nothing great but man ; In man there is nothing great but mind. — WILLIAM HAMILTON. Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind.... | |
 | 1881 - 970 páginas
...them a transitory significance. The old philosophic adage remains as true now as ever — ' In nature there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind ' — and the higher poetry, art, science, and speculation which spring out of the recognition of the... | |
 | 1881 - 972 páginas
...them a transitory significance. The old philosophic adage remains as true now as ever — ' In nature there is nothing great but man ; in man there is nothing great but mind ' — and the higher poetry, art, science, and speculation which spring out of the recognition of 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. 
