 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...spiritually, or through ourselves: therefore, that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up , Page & company Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man? Once inhale the upper air, being admitted to behold... | |
 | Joseph Alexander Leighton - 1926 - 612 pages
...which the universal spirit speaks to the individual and strives to lead back the individual to it. As a plant upon the earth so a man rests upon the bosom of God. The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remote and inferior incarnation... | |
 | Violet Mary Beauclerk Clifton - 1927 - 408 pages
...animals or flowers ; just the jungle and the great solitary trees. I mused on Emerson's saying : " As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God ; he is fed by innumerable fountains, and draws at his need inexhaustible power." * I had tried hard to attain... | |
 | 1901 - 776 pages
...fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its treat proportions." "As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bo«om of God: he is nourished by unfailing fountains and draws at his need inexhaustible power." "Our... | |
 | 1907 - 474 pages
...to sound it with a deeper note, is this ; that behind nature, throughout nature, spirit is present. As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the...fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power." Next to the revelation of American mysticism as already articulate in the genius of Jonathan Edwards,... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 pages
...spiritually, or through ourselves: therefore, that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as...fountains, and draws at his need inexhaustible power. Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man? Once inhale the upper air, being admitted to behold... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...spiritually, or through ourselves: therefore, that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as...fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power. Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man? Once inhale the upper air, being admitted to behold... | |
 | Myra Jehlen - 1986 - 276 pages
...the world moves throughout the universe and into each man, diffusing unending vitality and energy. As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the...fountains, and draws, at his need inexhaustible power. Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man? Once inhale the upper air, being admitted to behold... | |
 | Piero Gleijeses - 1992 - 470 pages
...Two hours later, he came and asked: "What have you learned?" I responded by quoting from the book: "As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the...fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power. Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man? Once inhale the upper air, being admitted to behold... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 pages
...spiritually, or through ourselves: therefore, that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as...fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power. Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man? (CW 1:38) Who can set bounds indeed? When the center... | |
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... the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us but puts it forth through us, as the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old. 
