Society and SolitudeHoughton, Mifflin & Company, 1899 - 269 oldal |
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26. oldal
... tion . The division of labor , the multiplication of the arts of peace , which is nothing but a large allow- ance to each man to choose his work according to his faculty , to live by his better hand , -fills the State with useful and ...
... tion . The division of labor , the multiplication of the arts of peace , which is nothing but a large allow- ance to each man to choose his work according to his faculty , to live by his better hand , -fills the State with useful and ...
29. oldal
... tion . - Civilization is the result of highly complex organ- ization . In the snake , all the organs are sheathed ; no hands , no feet , no fins , no wings . In bird and beast the organs are released and begin to play . In man they are ...
... tion . - Civilization is the result of highly complex organ- ization . In the snake , all the organs are sheathed ; no hands , no feet , no fins , no wings . In bird and beast the organs are released and begin to play . In man they are ...
37. oldal
... tion of social life ; where the position of the white woman is injuriously affected by the outlawry of the black woman ; where the arts , such as they have , are all imported , having no indigenous life ; where the laborer is not ...
... tion of social life ; where the position of the white woman is injuriously affected by the outlawry of the black woman ; where the arts , such as they have , are all imported , having no indigenous life ; where the laborer is not ...
42. oldal
... tion ; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first . It rises in thought , to the end that it may be uttered and acted . The more pro- found the thought , the more burdensome . Always in proportion to the depth of its ...
... tion ; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first . It rises in thought , to the end that it may be uttered and acted . The more pro- found the thought , the more burdensome . Always in proportion to the depth of its ...
46. oldal
... tion is to be made before we can know his proper contribution to it . Music , Eloquence , Poetry , Painting , Sculpture , Architecture . This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts . I omit Rhetoric , which only respects the form of ...
... tion is to be made before we can know his proper contribution to it . Music , Eloquence , Poetry , Painting , Sculpture , Architecture . This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts . I omit Rhetoric , which only respects the form of ...
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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.