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... thoughts ; and the sober second thought of the people will not permit the discontinuance of any of the old ideals ; there will be no unadvised innovation , nor will there be any retrograde move- ment . I look rather for a summation of ...
... thoughts ; and the sober second thought of the people will not permit the discontinuance of any of the old ideals ; there will be no unadvised innovation , nor will there be any retrograde move- ment . I look rather for a summation of ...
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... thought of England , or English people , and Ameri- cans uniting in defence of their common interest , which , though immediately com- mercial in the Pacific , must also be social and political , as well , in the end . Neces- sity would ...
... thought of England , or English people , and Ameri- cans uniting in defence of their common interest , which , though immediately com- mercial in the Pacific , must also be social and political , as well , in the end . Neces- sity would ...
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... thought and action among women - those who have become famous , or have been pioneers in some great movement - are those who have never earned a dollar by their own effort . A true home affords a chance for gaining an education ...
... thought and action among women - those who have become famous , or have been pioneers in some great movement - are those who have never earned a dollar by their own effort . A true home affords a chance for gaining an education ...
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... thought of entering the profession ? ' And when I told him , three years , he looked at me and knitting his shaggy brows remarked , ' I guess , lad , the fever's on you to stay . Tell your father to come and see me to - morrow , about ...
... thought of entering the profession ? ' And when I told him , three years , he looked at me and knitting his shaggy brows remarked , ' I guess , lad , the fever's on you to stay . Tell your father to come and see me to - morrow , about ...
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... thought sets upon a man's face . The transparency and spirituality of Thoreau's expression was as deep as the thoughts within were guile- less and noble . Channing observes : " In height he [ Thoreau ] was about the average , his build ...
... thought sets upon a man's face . The transparency and spirituality of Thoreau's expression was as deep as the thoughts within were guile- less and noble . Channing observes : " In height he [ Thoreau ] was about the average , his build ...
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Página 319 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union : on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched it may be in fraternal blood...
Página 186 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking features as recall the original to every mind; and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have remarked, and another have neglected, for those characteristics which...
Página 246 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember...
Página 186 - He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or country ; he must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state ; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same...
Página 432 - If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe, Such boastings as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget - lest we forget!
Página 73 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Página 188 - He, gifted like the objective poet with the fuller perception of nature and man, is impelled to embody the thing he perceives, not so much with reference to the many below as to the one above him, the supreme Intelligence which apprehends all things in their absolute truth, — an ultimate view ever aspired to, if but partially attained, by the poet's own soul. Not what man sees, but what God sees — the Ideas of Plato, seeds of creation lying burningly on the Divine Hand — it is toward these...
Página 240 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 147 - Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, For the good or evil side...
Página 68 - Withal it is a silent pain too, a silent scornful one : the lip is curled in a kind of godlike disdain of the thing that is eating out his heart, — as if it were withal a mean insignificant thing, as if he whom it had power to torture and strangle were greater than it.