Society and Solitude: Twelve ChaptersHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1870 - 269 oldal |
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11. oldal
... also angels who do not live consociated , but separate , house and house ; these dwell in the midst of heaven , because they are the best of angels . " We have known many fine geniuses with that imper- fection SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE . 11.
... also angels who do not live consociated , but separate , house and house ; these dwell in the midst of heaven , because they are the best of angels . " We have known many fine geniuses with that imper- fection SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE . 11.
14. oldal
... live alone , and must ; but coop up most men , and you undo them . " The king lived and ate in his hall with men , and understood men , " said Selden . When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason , “ I keep my chamber to read law ...
... live alone , and must ; but coop up most men , and you undo them . " The king lived and ate in his hall with men , and understood men , " said Selden . When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason , “ I keep my chamber to read law ...
16. oldal
... , their native aims being high enough , but their relation all too tender to the gross people about them . Men cannot afford to live together on their merits , and they adjust themselves by their demerits , 16 SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE .
... , their native aims being high enough , but their relation all too tender to the gross people about them . Men cannot afford to live together on their merits , and they adjust themselves by their demerits , 16 SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE .
24. oldal
... live by his better hand , - fills the State with useful and happy laborers ; and they , creating demand by the very temptation of their productions , are rapidly and surely rewarded by good sale : and what a police and ten com ...
... live by his better hand , - fills the State with useful and happy laborers ; and they , creating demand by the very temptation of their productions , are rapidly and surely rewarded by good sale : and what a police and ten com ...
31. oldal
... lives affectionately with scores of excel- lent people who are not known far from home , and per- haps with great reason reckons these people his superiors in virtue , and in the symmetry and force of their quali- ties , I see what ...
... lives affectionately with scores of excel- lent people who are not known far from home , and per- haps with great reason reckons these people his superiors in virtue , and in the symmetry and force of their quali- ties , I see what ...
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198. 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.
239. 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...
154. oldal - CO. /CONSIDER what you have in the smallest chosen ^~^ library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
101. oldal - ... college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine those grosser propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.
139. oldal - There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.
114. oldal - Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water — patience with the slowness of our feet, with the parsimony of our strength, with the largeness of sea and land w* must traverse, etc.
158. oldal - The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, — 1. Never read any book that is not a year old. 2. Never read any but famed books. 3. Never read any but what you like ; or, in Shakspeare's phrase, — " No profit goes where is no pleasure ta'en : In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
38. oldal - The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is Art.
29. 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...
25. oldal - Right position of woman in the State is another index. Poverty and industry with a healthy mind read very easily the laws of humanity, and love them : place the sexes in right relations of mutual respect, and a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all that is delicate, poetic, and self-sacrificing; breeds courtesy and learning, conversation and wit, in her rough mate ; so that I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.