The Conduct of LifeHoughton, Mifflin, 1860 - 308 páginas |
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... ; so is climate ; so is the reaction of talents imprisoning the vital power in certain directions . Every spirit makes its house ; but afterwards the house confines the spirit . The gross lines are legible to the dull the cabman FATE . 13.
... ; so is climate ; so is the reaction of talents imprisoning the vital power in certain directions . Every spirit makes its house ; but afterwards the house confines the spirit . The gross lines are legible to the dull the cabman FATE . 13.
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... women are merely one couple more . Now and then , one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain , — an architectural , a musical , or a philological knack , some stray taste or talent for flowers , or chemistry FATE . 15.
... women are merely one couple more . Now and then , one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain , — an architectural , a musical , or a philological knack , some stray taste or talent for flowers , or chemistry FATE . 15.
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... talent draws off so rapidly the vital force , that not enough remains for the animal functions , hardly enough for health ; so that , in the second generation , if the like genius appear , the health is visibly deteriorated , and the ...
... talent draws off so rapidly the vital force , that not enough remains for the animal functions , hardly enough for health ; so that , in the second generation , if the like genius appear , the health is visibly deteriorated , and the ...
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... talent so abounds , this con- structive tool - making efficiency , as if it adhered to the chemic atoms , as if the air he breathes were made of Vancansons , Franklins , and Watts . Doubtless , in every million there will be an ...
... talent so abounds , this con- structive tool - making efficiency , as if it adhered to the chemic atoms , as if the air he breathes were made of Vancansons , Franklins , and Watts . Doubtless , in every million there will be an ...
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... talents .. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces , as to lame him ; a defect pays him revenues on the other side . The sufferance , which is the badge of the Jew , has made him , in these days , the ruler of the rulers of ...
... talents .. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces , as to lame him ; a defect pays him revenues on the other side . The sufferance , which is the badge of the Jew , has made him , in these days , the ruler of the rulers of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
animal atoms bad company beauty Beauty rides believe Ben Jonson better born brain character cholera clothes comes culture divine Dock Square draw economy element England eyes face fancy farm Fate feel force friends genius give Goethe hands heart heaven heroes horse human illusion impressionable intellect Julius Cæsar King labor limp band live look man's mankind manners Marcus Antoninus matter means meliorate mind moral myrmidons Nature necessity never passion Pericles persons plant Plato Plutarch poet politics poor quadruped race RALPH WALDO EMERSON religion rich rule sciatica secret social society solitude soul spare spend spirit stars strength sublime talent things thou thought tion town tree truth ture typhus universe virtue wealth Whig whilst whole wise wish youth
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Página 136 - No man can resist their influence. There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he or she must be considered, and is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, or wealth, or genius. Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them, they solicit him to enter and possess.
Página 189 - There will be a new church founded on moral science, at first cold and naked, a babe in a manger again, the algebra and mathematics of ethical law, the church of men to come, without shawms, or psaltery, or sackbut ; but it will have heaven and earth for its beams and rafters ; science for symbol and illustration ; it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry.
Página 214 - He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Página 12 - Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman, but swallows your ship like a grain of dust.
Página 62 - The first is, the stopping off decisively our miscellaneous activity, and concentrating our force on one or a few points; as the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, instead of suffering it to spindle into a sheaf of twigs. " Enlarge not thy destiny," said the oracle : " endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
Página 155 - I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty; that give the like exhilaration, and refine us like that; and, in memorable experiences, they are suddenly better than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly. But they must be marked by fine perception, the acquaintance with real beauty. They must always show self-control: you shall not be facile, apologetic, or leaky, but king over your word; and every gesture and action shall indicate power at rest. Then they must be inspired...
Página 142 - Eyes are bold as lions, — roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no...
Página 135 - There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genins or of love, — now repeated and hardened into usage.
Página 86 - ... legislate. Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws. Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.
Página 155 - If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunderstroke, I beseech you by all angels to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning, to which all the housemates bring serene and pleasant thoughts, by corruption and groans.
Referencias a este libro
Uncommon Understanding: Development and Disorders of Language Comprehension ... Dorothy V. M. Bishop Vista previa limitada - 1997 |
The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier Richard G. Wilkinson Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |