Power, Wealth, IllusionsJ.R. Osgood, 1860 - 107 páginas |
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... eye of a soldier or a schoolmaster ( which one has , and one has not , as one has a black mustache and one a blond ) , then quite easily , and without envy or resistance , all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his -- right to absorb ...
... eye of a soldier or a schoolmaster ( which one has , and one has not , as one has a black mustache and one a blond ) , then quite easily , and without envy or resistance , all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his -- right to absorb ...
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... eye makes estates , as fast as the sun breeds clouds . When a new boy comes into school , when a man travels , and encounters strangers every day , or , when into any old club a new - comer is domesticated , that happens which befalls ...
... eye makes estates , as fast as the sun breeds clouds . When a new boy comes into school , when a man travels , and encounters strangers every day , or , when into any old club a new - comer is domesticated , that happens which befalls ...
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... eyes . The weaker party finds that none of his information or wit quite fits the occasion . He thought he knew this or that he finds that he omitted to learn the end of it . Nothing that he knows will quite hit the mark , whilst all the ...
... eyes . The weaker party finds that none of his information or wit quite fits the occasion . He thought he knew this or that he finds that he omitted to learn the end of it . Nothing that he knows will quite hit the mark , whilst all the ...
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... eyes to con- sequences , with a mind made up to desperate extremities , ballot in one hand , and rifle in the other , might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days , and he hardens himself the best he can ...
... eyes to con- sequences , with a mind made up to desperate extremities , ballot in one hand , and rifle in the other , might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days , and he hardens himself the best he can ...
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... eye to every side and angle of contingency , and qualifies all his qualifications , but who throws himself on your part so heartily , that he can get you out of a scrape . Dr. Johnson said , in one of his flow- ing sentences ...
... eye to every side and angle of contingency , and qualifies all his qualifications , but who throws himself on your part so heartily , that he can get you out of a scrape . Dr. Johnson said , in one of his flow- ing sentences ...
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Página 48 - He may fix his inventory of necessities and of enjoyments on what scale he pleases, but if he wishes the power and privilege of thought, the chalking out his own career and having society on his own terms, he must bring his wants within his proper power to satisfy. The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
Página 52 - The pulpit and the press have many common-places denouncing the thirst for wealth ; but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
Página 106 - On the instant, and incessantly, fall snowstorms of illusions. He fancies himself in a vast crowd which sways this way and that, and whose movement and doings he must obey: he fancies himself poor, orphaned, insignificant.
Página 30 - Many an artist lacking this, lacks all: he sees the masculine Angelo or Cellini with despair. He, too, is up to Nature and the First Cause in his thought. But the spasm to collect and swing his whole being into one act, he has not. The poet Campbell said, that "a man accustomed to work was equal to any achievement he resolved on, and, that, for himself, necessity not inspiration was the prompter of his Muse.
Página 10 - Thorfin, - and the ships will, with just as much ease, sail six hundred, one thousand, fifteen hundred miles further, and reach Labrador and New England. There is no chance in results. With adults, as with children, one class enter cordially into the game, and whirl with the whirling world; the others have cold hands, and remain bystanders; or are only dragged in by the humor and vivacity of those who can carry a dead weight. The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve...
Página 72 - Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider...
Página 43 - Tor coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle ; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted.
Página 26 - In history, the great moment is, when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on his opening sense of beauty: — and you have Pericles and Phidias,—not yet passed over into the Corinthian civility. Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition...
Página 70 - Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society.
Página 17 - Power educates the potentate. As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions. A Western lawyer of eminence said to me he wished it were a penal offence to bring an English law-book into a court in this country, so pernicious had he found in his experience our deference to English precedent. The very word 'commerce' has only an English meaning, and is pinched to the cramp exigencies of English experience.