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... , astronomy , little suspected at first , when , by union with intellect and will , they ascend into the life and reappear in conversation , character and politics.2 But this comes later . We speak now only of 10 REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
... , astronomy , little suspected at first , when , by union with intellect and will , they ascend into the life and reappear in conversation , character and politics.2 But this comes later . We speak now only of 10 REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
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... conversation with our mates , and exult in the depth of nature in that direc- tion in which he leads us . What indemnification is one great man for populations of pigmies ! ― Every mother wishes one son a genius , though 26 ...
... conversation with our mates , and exult in the depth of nature in that direc- tion in which he leads us . What indemnification is one great man for populations of pigmies ! ― Every mother wishes one son a genius , though 26 ...
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... conversation ; and that , under his hypocritical pretence of knowing nothing , he attacks and brings down all the fine speakers , all the fine philosophers of Athens , whether natives or stran- gers from Asia Minor and the islands ...
... conversation ; and that , under his hypocritical pretence of knowing nothing , he attacks and brings down all the fine speakers , all the fine philosophers of Athens , whether natives or stran- gers from Asia Minor and the islands ...
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... Conversation , whose laws are profoundly set forth . It is false , if literally applied to marriage . For God is the bride or bridegroom of the soul . Heaven is not the pairing of two , but the com- munion of all souls . We meet , and ...
... Conversation , whose laws are profoundly set forth . It is false , if literally applied to marriage . For God is the bride or bridegroom of the soul . Heaven is not the pairing of two , but the com- munion of all souls . We meet , and ...
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... conversation transferred to a book . Cut these words , and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive . One has the same pleasure in it that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work , when any unusual ...
... conversation transferred to a book . Cut these words , and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive . One has the same pleasure in it that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work , when any unusual ...
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Términos y frases comunes
action admirable Æsop appears battle of Austerlitz beauty Behmen believe better Bonaparte Carlyle century character church culture dæmons delight divine doctrine earth Emer Emerson records England English Essays Europe existence expression eyes fact faith Faust genius Goethe heaven hero honor human ideas intellect John Sterling journal king knew labor learned lecture live look Lord Elgin mankind means ment merit mind modern Montaigne moral Napoleon nature ness never numbers original Parmenides persons Phædo philosophy plant Plato play Plutarch Poems poet poetic poetry Ralph Waldo Emerson Richard Garnett scholar secret seems sense sentence sentiment Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's skepticism society Socrates soul speak spirit Sweden Swedenborg Swedenborgian talent tell Theuth things thou thought tion translation truth universal verse virtue whilst wise word write wrote youth
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Página 88 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Página 328 - Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered in the moon; She spired into a yellow flame; She flowered in blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave: She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame; "Who telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am.
Página 210 - What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon?
Página 320 - But as all are of the same original stock, a golden parent will sometimes have a silver son, or a silver parent a golden son.
Página 365 - LITTLE thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Of thee from the hill-top looking down; The heifer that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton, tolling his bell at noon, Deems not that great Napoleon Stops his horse, and lists with delight, Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine height; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
Página 349 - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.
Página 14 - He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or wearied by the most laborious; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts...
Página 339 - Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town; Thou didst betray me to a ling'ring book, And wrap me in a gown. I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life.
Página 316 - The gods talk in the breath of the woods, They talk in the shaken pine, And fill the long reach of the old seashore With dialogue divine; And the poet who overhears Some random word they say Is the fated man of men Whom the ages must obey...
Página 305 - Henceforth I design not to utter any speech, poem or book that is not entirely and peculiarly my work. I will say at public lectures, and the like, those things which I have meditated for their own sake, and not for the first time with a view to that occasion.