Society and Solitude: Twelve ChaptersFields, Osgood & Company, 1870 - 300 oldal |
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33. oldal
... truth through thought and instinct , the human mind on the other side tends , by an equal necessity , to the publication and embodiment of its thought , modified and dwarfed by the impurity and untruth which , in all our experience ...
... truth through thought and instinct , the human mind on the other side tends , by an equal necessity , to the publication and embodiment of its thought , modified and dwarfed by the impurity and untruth which , in all our experience ...
46. oldal
... truth , the great works are always attuned to moral nature . If the earth and sea conspire with virtue more than vice , so do the masterpieces of art . The galleries of ancient sculp- ture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction ...
... truth , the great works are always attuned to moral nature . If the earth and sea conspire with virtue more than vice , so do the masterpieces of art . The galleries of ancient sculp- ture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction ...
51. oldal
... truth , and goodness are not obsolete ; they spring eternal in the breast of man ; they are as indigenous in Massachusetts as in Tuscany or the Isles of Greece . And that Eternal Spirit , whose triple face they are , moulds from them ...
... truth , and goodness are not obsolete ; they spring eternal in the breast of man ; they are as indigenous in Massachusetts as in Tuscany or the Isles of Greece . And that Eternal Spirit , whose triple face they are , moulds from them ...
76. oldal
... truth is . And in the examination of wit- nesses there usually leap out , quite unexpectedly , three or four stubborn words or phrases which are the pith and fate of the business , which sink into the ear of all parties , and stick ...
... truth is . And in the examination of wit- nesses there usually leap out , quite unexpectedly , three or four stubborn words or phrases which are the pith and fate of the business , which sink into the ear of all parties , and stick ...
77. oldal
... truth stares us in the face , through all the disguises that are put upon it , — à piece of the well - known human life , that makes the interest of a court - room to the intelligent spec- tator . I remember , long ago , being attracted ...
... truth stares us in the face , through all the disguises that are put upon it , — à piece of the well - known human life , that makes the interest of a court - room to the intelligent spec- tator . I remember , long ago , being attracted ...
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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.