Power, Wealth, IllusionsJ.R. Osgood, 1860 - 107 páginas |
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... seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers , of unseen oceans , which are covered with barks , that , night and day , are drifted to this point . That is poured into its lap , which other men lie plotting for . It is in everybody's ...
... seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers , of unseen oceans , which are covered with barks , that , night and day , are drifted to this point . That is poured into its lap , which other men lie plotting for . It is in everybody's ...
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... seems over - fine or under - fine . Health is good , power , life , that resists disease , poison , and all enemies , and is con- servative , as well as creative . Here is ques- tion , every spring , whether to graft with wax , or ...
... seems over - fine or under - fine . Health is good , power , life , that resists disease , poison , and all enemies , and is con- servative , as well as creative . Here is ques- tion , every spring , whether to graft with wax , or ...
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... seems agreed , are not fit persons to send to Congress . Politics is a deleterious profession , like some poison- ous handicrafts . Men in power have no opin- ions , but may be had cheap for any opinion , for any purpose ; and if it be ...
... seems agreed , are not fit persons to send to Congress . Politics is a deleterious profession , like some poison- ous handicrafts . Men in power have no opin- ions , but may be had cheap for any opinion , for any purpose ; and if it be ...
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... seems some thirty thousand were thieves and bur- glars . The men whom , in peaceful communi- ties , we hold if we can , with iron at their legs , in prisons , under the muskets of sentinels , this man dealt with , hand to hand , dragged ...
... seems some thirty thousand were thieves and bur- glars . The men whom , in peaceful communi- ties , we hold if we can , with iron at their legs , in prisons , under the muskets of sentinels , this man dealt with , hand to hand , dragged ...
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... seems to be a compromise of their character : they seem to steal their own dividends . They should own who can administer ; not they who hoard and conceal ; not they who , the greater proprietors they are , are only the greater beggars ...
... seems to be a compromise of their character : they seem to steal their own dividends . They should own who can administer ; not they who hoard and conceal ; not they who , the greater proprietors they are , are only the greater beggars ...
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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.