Significados de dead selves en inglés

It raises them, so to speak, above the frailties of their dead selves.

She kept rising on stepping-stones of her dead selves.

Our dead selves may become 'stepping-stones to higher things.'

Truly when Mr. Allen makes stepping-stones of his dead selves, he jumps upon them to some tune.

It is only over stepping-stones of their dead selves that men are enabled to rise to higher things.

These dead selves are so crude!

If we would go forward, we must first look backward; for we must rise on stepping-stones of our dead selves.

We wrestle with the dripping, and rise on stepping-stones-notof our dead selves, but of sheep and oxen-tohigher things.

Society proceeds toward betterment, and not catastrophe, as individuals may proceed on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.

The man may die, but the race survives and continues the work,-touse the poet's simile, mounting on stepping-stonesof dead selves to higher selves.

"Of our dead selves to higher things," assented his companion.