Representative men. English traits. Conduct of lifeFields, Osgood & Company, 1870 |
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... seems to exist for the excellent . The world is up- held by the veracity of good men : they make the earth whole- some . They who lived with them found life glad and nutri- tious . Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such ...
... seems to exist for the excellent . The world is up- held by the veracity of good men : they make the earth whole- some . They who lived with them found life glad and nutri- tious . Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such ...
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... seem as if each waited , like the enchanted princess in fairy tales , for a destined human deliverer . Each must be disenchanted , and walk forth to the day in human shape . In the history of discovery , the ripe and latent truth seems ...
... seem as if each waited , like the enchanted princess in fairy tales , for a destined human deliverer . Each must be disenchanted , and walk forth to the day in human shape . In the history of discovery , the ripe and latent truth seems ...
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... seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who oc- cupies himself with one thing , all his life long . The possibil ... seems a poverty that we can only spend it once : we wish for a thousand heads , a thousand bodies , that we might ...
... seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who oc- cupies himself with one thing , all his life long . The possibil ... seems a poverty that we can only spend it once : we wish for a thousand heads , a thousand bodies , that we might ...
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... seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force . It opens the delicious sense of indeterminate size , and inspires an audacious mental habit . We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder , and a sentence in a book , or a word ...
... seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force . It opens the delicious sense of indeterminate size , and inspires an audacious mental habit . We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder , and a sentence in a book , or a word ...
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... seem to have no good , without breach of good manners . Nobody is glad in the glad- ness of another , and our system is one of war , of an injurious superiority . Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first . It is our ...
... seem to have no good , without breach of good manners . Nobody is glad in the glad- ness of another , and our system is one of war , of an injurious superiority . Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first . It is our ...
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Página 47 - 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 151 - Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book ; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise ; holding things because they are things.
Página 128 - In one of his conversations with Las Casas, he remarked, "As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-themorning kind : I mean unprepared courage ; that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgment and decision...
Página 430 - Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
Página 114 - Tis like making a question concerning the paper on which a king's message is written. Shakespeare is as much out of the category of eminent authors, as he is out of the crowd. He is inconceivably wise; the others, conceivably. A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain, and think from thence; but not into Shakespeare's. We are still out of doors.
Página 96 - The doubts they profess to entertain are rather a civility or accommodation to the common discourse of their company. They may well give themselves leave to speculate, for they are secure of a return. Once admitted to the heaven of thought, they see no relapse into...
Página 418 - 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.
Página 112 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Página 371 - 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 83 - Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib, und Gesang Der bleibt ein Narr sein Lcben lang;" and when he advised a young scholar perplexed with fore-ordination and free-will, to get well drunk. "The nerves," says Cabanis,