 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1875 - 646 ページ
...Mœurs, ch. Ixxxii. Tout homme est formé par son siècle ; bien peu s'élèvent au-dessus des mœurs des temps. Every man is the creature of the age in...few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the times. See (Ger.) Man, the creature of с TRUE EQUALITY. Essai sur les Mœurs, ch. xcviii. Ceux... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 ページ
...devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed. — Coleridge. Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very...to raise themselves above the ideas of their times. — Voltaire. ii'A fair reputation is a plant delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in its... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 ページ
...devil may be conquered, butin this life never destroyed. — Coleridge. Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. —...to raise themselves above the ideas of their times. — VoUaire.. The great hope of society is in individual character. — Charming. The Duc de Chartres... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 ページ
...devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed. — Coleridge. Every man, as to character, e's ill manners. — Cliestft-Jwltl. Manners are stronger than laws. — I. CarlUe. One may now ideaa of their times. — Voltaire. The great hope of society is in individual character. — Channing.... | |
 | Charles George Walker - 2000 - 203 ページ
...Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few arc able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) (1694 —... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 ページ
...— Edward Young "They who have not the spirit of their age, of their age have all the misery." — "Every man is the creature of the age in which he...few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the times." — Voltaire "To each age belongeth its own book." — The Koran, 8:38 "The heresy of one... | |
 | Douglas E. Morris - 2009 - 270 ページ
...level, and make us happier, healthier, and more fulfilled. Civility Needs To be Taught Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. — Voltaire In America, without communities in place to informally educate us, we are all... | |
 | David A. Roozen, James R. Nieman - 2005 - 678 ページ
...Voltaire is said to have suggested that people are creatures of the age in which they live, and that very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their time. On the basis of my findings, I would have to agree. The shifts in communion theology, so similar... | |
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Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. — Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times. 