 The powers of man have not been exhausted. Nothing has been done by him, that cannot be better done. There is no effort of science or art that may not be exceeded; no depth of philosophy that cannot be deeper sounded ; no flight of imagination that may...  Common Sense - Page 31906Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 388 pages
...speculation, to be again routed, when human ingenuity shall admit us one hair-breadth further into creation. The powers of man have not been exhausted. Nothing...that may not be passed by strong and soaring wing. All nature is full of unknown things. Earth, air, water, the fathomless ocean, the limitless sky, lie... | |
 | 1851 - 802 pages
...speculation to be again routed, when human ingenuity shall admit us one hair breadth further into creation. The powers of man have not been exhausted. Nothing...that may not be passed by strong and soaring wing. All nature is full of unknown things. Earth, air, water, the fathomless ocean, the limitless sky, lie... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1852 - 250 pages
...rushes by the crumbling banks of the canal, screams out its mockery at the barge rotting piecemeal. 11. The powers of man have not been exhausted. Nothing...philosophy that cannot be deeper sounded ; no flight of the imagination that may not be passed by strong and soaring Wing. 12. All nature is full of unknown... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - 1856 - 650 pages
...speculation, to be again routed, when human ingenuity shall admit us on« hair-breadth further into creation. The powers of man have not been exhausted. Nothing has been done by him that can not be better done. There is no effort of science or art that may not be exceeded ; no depth of... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - 1858 - 652 pages
...speculation, to be again routed, when human ingenuity shall admit us one hair-breadth further into creation. The powers of man have not been exhausted. Nothing has been done by him that can not be better done. There is no effort of science or art that may not be exceeded ; no depth of... | |
 | Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - 1866 - 204 pages
...speculations, to be again routed, when human ingenuity shall admit us one hair-breadth further into creation. There is no effort of science or art that may not...that may not be passed by strong and soaring wing. All nature is full of unknown things; earth, air, water, the fathomless ocean, the limitless sky, lie... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 202 pages
...be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time." CHAPTER VII. ORIGINALITY IN AIMS AND METHODS. " The powers of man have not been exhausted. Nothing...that may not be passed by strong and soaring wing. Do that which, is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too muck. There is at this moment... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 386 pages
...be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time." CHAPTER VII. ORIGINALITY IN AIMS AND METHODS. " The powers of man have not been exhausted. Nothing...that may not be passed by strong and soaring wing." Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. There is at this moment... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 376 pages
...to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time." CHAPTER VII. ORIGINALITY IN AIMS AND METHODS. "The powers of man have not been exhausted. Nothing...that may not be passed by strong and soaring wing." Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. There is at this moment... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...speculations, to be again routed, when human yigenuity shall admit us one hair-breadth further into creation. There is no effort of science or art that may not...exceeded; no depth of philosophy that cannot be deeper tiounded ; no flight of imagination that may not be passed by strong and soaring wing. All nature is... | |
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