...is just that thing. He shows himself superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man! Newspaper editors argue also that it is a proof of his insanity that he thought he was appointed to...

...familiar with years before. But instead, on one of these walls, in a neat handwriting, I read: "Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man." And below: "No conflict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself. But in this we must continually...

...Predominate ; whose strong effects are such, As he must bear, being powerless to redress : And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! DANHD.* I HAVE thus endeavored, with an anxiety which may perhaps have misled me into prolixity,...

...Predominate, whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress, And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man! 37. This number is problematic. We are told that Sadipe is three years younger than his brother Mojola,...

...catholic and universal ends. A puny creature walled in on every side, as Donne wrote,— —"unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!" but when his will leans on a principle, when he is the vehicle of ideas, he borrows their onmipotence....

...Excursion, especially in book 4. Interestingly, Emerson andThoreau both quote a couplet of Seneca: "Unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man." Emerson cites the couplet, in 1862, to illustrate how "puny" one is unless one becomes "a vehicle of...

...for catholic and universal ends. A puny creature walled in on every side, as Daniel wrote, "Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!" but when his will leans on a principle, when he is the vehicle of ideas, he borrows their omnipotence....