Society and Solitude: Twelve ChaptersFields, Osgood & Company, 1870 - 300 oldal |
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18. oldal
... passing daily away , and he seeing things really and comprehen- sively , is made by tribes . It is the learning the secret of cumulative power , of advancing on one's self . It implies a facility of association , power to compare , the ...
... passing daily away , and he seeing things really and comprehen- sively , is made by tribes . It is the learning the secret of cumulative power , of advancing on one's self . It implies a facility of association , power to compare , the ...
33. oldal
... passes . The child not only suffers , but cries ; not only hungers , but eats . The man not only thinks , but speaks and acts . Every thought that arises in the mind , in its rising aims to pass out of the mind into act ; just as every ...
... passes . The child not only suffers , but cries ; not only hungers , but eats . The man not only thinks , but speaks and acts . Every thought that arises in the mind , in its rising aims to pass out of the mind into act ; just as every ...
66. oldal
... passing through the streets , which converts all the passengers into poets , but is forgotten as soon as it has turned the ... pass the Sirens safely . There are all degrees of power , and the least are interesting , but they must not be ...
... passing through the streets , which converts all the passengers into poets , but is forgotten as soon as it has turned the ... pass the Sirens safely . There are all degrees of power , and the least are interesting , but they must not be ...
67. oldal
... passing occurrences , and you have the mischievous member of Congress . A spice of malice , a ruffian touch in his rhetoric , will do him no harm with his audience . These accomplishments are of the same kind , and only a degree higher ...
... passing occurrences , and you have the mischievous member of Congress . A spice of malice , a ruffian touch in his rhetoric , will do him no harm with his audience . These accomplishments are of the same kind , and only a degree higher ...
70. oldal
... pass . " . " Julius Cæsar said to Metellus , when that tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury , " Young man , it is easier for me to put you to death than to say that I will " ; and the youth yielded . In ...
... pass . " . " Julius Cæsar said to Metellus , when that tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury , " Young man , it is easier for me to put you to death than to say that I will " ; and the youth yielded . In ...
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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.