Society and SolitudeHoughton, Mifflin & Company, 1899 - 269 oldal |
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30. oldal
... the elements . You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad - axe chop- ping upward chips from a beam . How awkward ! at what disadvantage he works ! But see him on the ground , dressing his timber under him . Now 30 CIVILIZATION .
... the elements . You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad - axe chop- ping upward chips from a beam . How awkward ! at what disadvantage he works ! But see him on the ground , dressing his timber under him . Now 30 CIVILIZATION .
31. oldal
Ralph Waldo Emerson. the ground , dressing his timber under him . Now , not his feeble muscles but the force of gravity brings down the axe ; that is to say , the planet itself splits his stick . The farmer had much ill- temper ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. the ground , dressing his timber under him . Now , not his feeble muscles but the force of gravity brings down the axe ; that is to say , the planet itself splits his stick . The farmer had much ill- temper ...
45. oldal
... ground to powder by her omnipresent activity . Nothing droll , nothing whimsical will endure . Nature is ever in- terfering with Art . You cannot build your house or pagoda as you will , but as you must . There is a quick bound set to ...
... ground to powder by her omnipresent activity . Nothing droll , nothing whimsical will endure . Nature is ever in- terfering with Art . You cannot build your house or pagoda as you will , but as you must . There is a quick bound set to ...
48. oldal
... ground - plan or profile of them on paper , so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art . There is a still larger deduction to be made from the genius of the artist in favor of Nature than I have yet specified . A jumble of ...
... ground - plan or profile of them on paper , so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art . There is a still larger deduction to be made from the genius of the artist in favor of Nature than I have yet specified . A jumble of ...
72. oldal
... a 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 72 ELOQUENCE .
... a 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 72 ELOQUENCE .
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232. 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.
185. oldal - Be sure, then, to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train. Dr. Johnson said, "he always went into stately shops...
279. 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...
186. 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.
166. 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.
258. oldal - He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
62. 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...
32. oldal - These are traits, and measures, and modes; and the 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.
86. oldal - ... they are all pretty well acquainted with the object of the meeting ; they have all read the facts in the same newspapers. The orator possesses no information which his hearers have not ; yet he teaches them to see the thing with his eyes. By the new placing, the circumstances acquire new solidity and wor.th. Every fact gains consequence by his naming it, and' trifles become important. His expressions fix themselves in men's memories, and fly from mouth to mouth.
72. oldal - As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth." In these examples, higher qualities have already entered, but the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech, and addressing the fancy and imagination, often exists without higher merits.