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19. oldal
... true to say they separate as oil from water , as children from old people , without love or hatred in the matter , each seeking his like ; and any interference with the affinities would produce constraint and suffocation . All ...
... true to say they separate as oil from water , as children from old people , without love or hatred in the matter , each seeking his like ; and any interference with the affinities would produce constraint and suffocation . All ...
27. oldal
... true is Dr. Johnson's remark that " men are seldom more in- nocently employed than when they are making money . " The skilful combinations of civil government , though they usually follow natural leadings , as the lines of race ...
... true is Dr. Johnson's remark that " men are seldom more in- nocently employed than when they are making money . " The skilful combinations of civil government , though they usually follow natural leadings , as the lines of race ...
29. oldal
... true liberty . Climate has much to do with this melioration . The highest civility has never loved the hot zones . Wherever snow falls there is usually civil freedom . Where the banana grows the animal system is indo- lent and pampered ...
... true liberty . Climate has much to do with this melioration . The highest civility has never loved the hot zones . Wherever snow falls there is usually civil freedom . Where the banana grows the animal system is indo- lent and pampered ...
34. oldal
... true test of civilization is , not the census , nor the size of cities , nor the crops , no , but the kind of man the country turns out . I see the vast ad- vantages of this country , spanning the breadth of the temperate zone . I see ...
... true test of civilization is , not the census , nor the size of cities , nor the crops , no , but the kind of man the country turns out . I see the vast ad- vantages of this country , spanning the breadth of the temperate zone . I see ...
37. oldal
... true of the culture of men , than of the tillage of land . And the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on se- curing the greatest good of the greatest number . ART . ART . ALL departments ...
... true of the culture of men , than of the tillage of land . And the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on se- curing the greatest good of the greatest number . ART . ART . ALL departments ...
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234. oldal - Ah Ben ! Say how or .when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
281. oldal - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower...
262. oldal - As any you should see. A little Indian boy Followed him everywhere, Eager to share the hunter's joy, The hunter's meal to share. And when the bird or deer Fell by the hunter's skill, The boy was always near To help with right good-will.
188. oldal - The mathematics and the metaphysics, Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you ; No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en : In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
168. oldal - One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
33. oldal - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
260. oldal - Have the courage not to adopt another'? courage. There is scope and cause and resistance enough for us in our proper work and circumstance. And there is no creed of an honest man, be he Christian, Turk, or Gentoo, which does not equally preach it.
64. oldal - We are too much reminded of a medical experiment where a series of patients are taking nitrous-oxide gas. Each patient in turn exhibits similar symptoms, — redness in the face, volubility, violent gesticulation, delirious attitudes, occasional stamping, an alarming loss of perception of the passage of time, a selfish enjoyment of his sensations, and loss of perception of the sufferings of the audience. Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government,...
74. oldal - When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very spectators to believe him." Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes, on hearing the report of one of his orations, " Had I been there, he would have persuaded me to take up arms against myself
169. oldal - Do not refuse the employment which the hour brings you, for one more ambitious. The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near from every point, and thou must find it, if at all, by methods native to thyself alone. That work is ever the more pleasant to the imagination which is not now required. How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working committee, we look at the distant hills and their seductions! The use of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty.