Society and Solitude: Twelve ChaptersFields, Osgood & Company, 1870 - 300 oldal |
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7. oldal
... determination of each is from all the others , like that of each tree up into free space . ' T is no wonder , when each has his whole head , our societies should be so small . Like President Tyler , our SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE . 7.
... determination of each is from all the others , like that of each tree up into free space . ' T is no wonder , when each has his whole head , our societies should be so small . Like President Tyler , our SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE . 7.
14. oldal
... head in the one and our hands in the other . The conditions are met , if we keep our independence , yet do not lose our sympathy . These wonderful horses need to be driven by fine hands . We require such a solitude as shall hold us to ...
... head in the one and our hands in the other . The conditions are met , if we keep our independence , yet do not lose our sympathy . These wonderful horses need to be driven by fine hands . We require such a solitude as shall hold us to ...
19. oldal
... head of much nonsense of his wig- wam . Where shall we begin or end the list of those feats of liberty and wit , each of which feats made an epoch of history ? Thus , the effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the tranquillity ...
... head of much nonsense of his wig- wam . Where shall we begin or end the list of those feats of liberty and wit , each of which feats made an epoch of history ? Thus , the effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the tranquillity ...
46. oldal
... heads , with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them . These are the coun- tenances of the first - born , the face of man in the morning of the world . No mark is on these lofty features , of ...
... heads , with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them . These are the coun- tenances of the first - born , the face of man in the morning of the world . No mark is on these lofty features , of ...
64. oldal
... head than Agamemnon , yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast . His arms lie on the ground , but he , like a leader , walks about the bands of the men . He seems to me like a stately ram , who goes as a master of the flock ...
... head than Agamemnon , yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast . His arms lie on the ground , but he , like a leader , walks about the bands of the men . He seems to me like a stately ram , who goes as a master of the flock ...
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221. oldal - AH Ben ! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyrick feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tunne ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad ? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meate, out-did the frolick wine.
26. 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...
176. 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.
267. 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...
158. oldal - The use of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty. That is good which commends to me my country, my climate, my means and materials, my associates. I knew a man in a certain religious exaltation, who " thought it an honour to wash his own face.
250. oldal - Came on with dreadful pace? The hunter stood unarmed, And met him face to face. I say unarmed he stood. Against those frightful paws The rifle butt, or club of wood, Could stand no more than straws.
175. oldal - T is therefore an economy of time to read old and famed books. Nothing can be preserved which is not good; and I know beforehand that Pindar, Martial, Terence, Galen, Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, Erasmus, More, will be superior to the average intellect.
56. oldal - Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men...
173. oldal - Spaniards ; so, perhaps, the human mind would be a gainer, if all the secondary writers were lost, — say, in England, all but Shakespeare, Milton, and Bacon, through the profounder study so drawn to those wonderful minds.
109. oldal - ... yet such an excessive humility, as if he had known nothing, that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a 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.