Society and SolitudeHoughton, Mifflin & Company, 1899 - 269 oldal |
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20. oldal
... mind will derive its principles from insight , with ever a purer ascent to the sufficient and absolute right , and will accept society as the natural element in which they are to be applied . CIVILIZATION . CIVILIZATION . ― A CERTAIN ...
... mind will derive its principles from insight , with ever a purer ascent to the sufficient and absolute right , and will accept society as the natural element in which they are to be applied . CIVILIZATION . CIVILIZATION . ― A CERTAIN ...
24. oldal
... mind and provokes it to dare to change . Thus there is a Cadmus , a Pytheas , a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement , some superior foreigner importing new and wonderful arts , and teaching them . Of course he must not know ...
... mind and provokes it to dare to change . Thus there is a Cadmus , a Pytheas , a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement , some superior foreigner importing new and wonderful arts , and teaching them . Of course he must not know ...
27. oldal
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
41. oldal
... mind on the other side tends , by an equal necessity , to the publication and embodiment of its thought , modified ... mind , in its rising aims to pass out of the mind into act ; just as every plant , in the moment of germination.
... mind on the other side tends , by an equal necessity , to the publication and embodiment of its thought , modified ... mind , in its rising aims to pass out of the mind into act ; just as every plant , in the moment of germination.
44. oldal
... mind . In the first place let us consider this in reference to the useful arts . Here the omnipotent agent is Nature ; all human acts are satellites to her orb . Nature is the representative of the universal mind , and the law becomes ...
... mind . In the first place let us consider this in reference to the useful arts . Here the omnipotent agent is Nature ; all human acts are satellites to her orb . Nature is the representative of the universal mind , and the law becomes ...
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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.