Power, Wealth, IllusionsJ.R. Osgood, 1860 - 107 páginas |
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... young orators describe ; the key to all ages is Imbecility ; imbecility in the vast majority of men , at all times , and , even in heroes , in all but certain eminent moments ; victims of gravity , custom , and fear . This gives force ...
... young orators describe ; the key to all ages is Imbecility ; imbecility in the vast majority of men , at all times , and , even in heroes , in all but certain eminent moments ; victims of gravity , custom , and fear . This gives force ...
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... young man , " said Hafiz , " sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise . " Import into any stationary district , as into an old Dutch population in New York or Pennsylvania , or among the planters of Virginia , a colony of hardy Yankees ...
... young man , " said Hafiz , " sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise . " Import into any stationary district , as into an old Dutch population in New York or Pennsylvania , or among the planters of Virginia , a colony of hardy Yankees ...
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... young men , as well as the playbooks . There is always room for a man of force , and he makes room for many . Society is a troop of thinkers , and the best heads among them take the best places . A feeble man can see the farms that are ...
... young men , as well as the playbooks . There is always room for a man of force , and he makes room for many . Society is a troop of thinkers , and the best heads among them take the best places . A feeble man can see the farms that are ...
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... young English are fine animals , full of blood , and when they have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in , they seek for travels as dangerous as war , diving into Maelstroms ; swimming Hellesponts ; wading up the snowy Himmaleh ...
... young English are fine animals , full of blood , and when they have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in , they seek for travels as dangerous as war , diving into Maelstroms ; swimming Hellesponts ; wading up the snowy Himmaleh ...
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... young man . Stick to your brewery ( he said this to young Buxton ) , and you will be the great brewer of London . Be brewer , and banker , and merchant , and manufacturer , and you will soon be in the Gazette . " Many men are knowing ...
... young man . Stick to your brewery ( he said this to young Buxton ) , and you will be the great brewer of London . Be brewer , and banker , and merchant , and manufacturer , and you will soon be in the Gazette . " Many men are knowing ...
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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.