Representative Men: Seven LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1903 - 378 páginas |
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... genius is paramount . In the legends of the Gautama , the first men ate the earth and found it deliciously sweet . Nature seems to exist for the excellent . The world is upheld by the veracity of good men : they make the earth wholesome ...
... genius is paramount . In the legends of the Gautama , the first men ate the earth and found it deliciously sweet . Nature seems to exist for the excellent . The world is upheld by the veracity of good men : they make the earth wholesome ...
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... , and the otherest . The stronger the nature , the more it is reactive . Let us have the quality pure . A little genius let us leave alone . A mainl difference betwixt men is , whether they attend their own USES OF GREAT MEN 5.
... , and the otherest . The stronger the nature , the more it is reactive . Let us have the quality pure . A little genius let us leave alone . A mainl difference betwixt men is , whether they attend their own USES OF GREAT MEN 5.
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... genius who occupies himself with one thing , all his life long . The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the ob- server with the observed . Each material thing < has its celestial side ; has its translation , through ...
... genius who occupies himself with one thing , all his life long . The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the ob- server with the observed . Each material thing < has its celestial side ; has its translation , through ...
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... genius of a forgotten inventor . Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences , the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky . Engineer , broker , jurist , physician , moralist , theologian , and ...
... genius of a forgotten inventor . Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences , the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky . Engineer , broker , jurist , physician , moralist , theologian , and ...
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... whom I never think of ? Whilst in every solitude are those who succor our genius and stimulate us in wonderful man- ners . There is a power in love to divine an- other's destiny better than that other can , and , 14 REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
... whom I never think of ? Whilst in every solitude are those who succor our genius and stimulate us in wonderful man- ners . There is a power in love to divine an- other's destiny better than that other can , and , 14 REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
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Página 305 - O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched, Through thee the rose is red, All things through thee take nobler form And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair ; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.
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 6 - He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Página 238 - At Montebello, I ordered Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse, and with these he separated the six thousand Hungarian grenadiers, before the very eyes of the Austrian cavalry. This cavalry was half a league off and required a quarter of an hour to arrive on the field of action, and I have observed that it is always these quarters of an hour that decide the fate of a battle.
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 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 295 - No book before or since was ever so much to me as that." In the fourth year after leaving college, when he had left the desk of the schoolmaster for his study at Divinity Hall, Emerson read a little book newly published in Boston, The Growth of the Mind, by Sampson Reed, which first attracted his attention to Swedenborg. Its...
Página 335 - I dare not say that Goethe ascended to the highest grounds from which genius has spoken. He has not worshipped the highest unity; he is incapable of a self-surrender to the moral sentiment. There are nobler strains in poetry than any he has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent, whose tone is purer, and more touches the heart. Goethe can never be dear to men.
Página 235 - The grand principle of war, he said, was that an army ought always to be ready, by day and by night and at all hours, to make all the resistance it is capable of making.
Página 39 - Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought.