Representative Men: Seven LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1903 - 378 páginas |
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... once : we wish for a thousand heads , a thousand bodies , that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places . Is this fancy ? Well , in good faith , we are multiplied by our proxies . How easily we adopt their labors ...
... once : we wish for a thousand heads , a thousand bodies , that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places . Is this fancy ? Well , in good faith , we are multiplied by our proxies . How easily we adopt their labors ...
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... once accepted as the reality , of which the world we have conversed with is the show . We go to the gymnasium and the swimming- school to see the power and beauty of the body ; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from ...
... once accepted as the reality , of which the world we have conversed with is the show . We go to the gymnasium and the swimming- school to see the power and beauty of the body ; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from ...
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... once having passed the bounds shall never again be quite the miserable pedants we were . 20. The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually ap- pears in all eminent minds , even in arithmeticians ...
... once having passed the bounds shall never again be quite the miserable pedants we were . 20. The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually ap- pears in all eminent minds , even in arithmeticians ...
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... Once you saw phoenixes : they are gone ; the world is not therefore disenchanted . The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery ; but the sense of the pictures is sacred , and you may still read them ...
... Once you saw phoenixes : they are gone ; the world is not therefore disenchanted . The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery ; but the sense of the pictures is sacred , and you may still read them ...
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... Once you saw phoenixes : they are gone ; the world is not therefore disenchanted . The vessels on . which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery ; but the sense of the pictures is sacred , and you may still read them ...
... Once you saw phoenixes : they are gone ; the world is not therefore disenchanted . The vessels on . which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery ; but the sense of the pictures is sacred , and you may still read them ...
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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.