Society and Solitude: Twelve ChaptersFields, Osgood & Company, 1870 - 300 oldal |
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56. oldal
... live under the government of worse men ; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors , as the penalty of abstaining to speak , — that they shall hear worse orators than themselves . But this lust to speak marks the universal ...
... live under the government of worse men ; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors , as the penalty of abstaining to speak , — that they shall hear worse orators than themselves . But this lust to speak marks the universal ...
95. oldal
... live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience . Fast - almost too fast for the wistful curiosity of the parents , studious of the witchcraft of curls and dimples and broken words - the ...
... live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience . Fast - almost too fast for the wistful curiosity of the parents , studious of the witchcraft of curls and dimples and broken words - the ...
98. oldal
... live ruins amidst ruins . The great facts are the near ones . The account of the body is to be sought in the mind . The history of your fortunes is written first in your life . - Let us come , then , out of the public square , and enter ...
... live ruins amidst ruins . The great facts are the near ones . The account of the body is to be sought in the mind . The history of your fortunes is written first in your life . - Let us come , then , out of the public square , and enter ...
112. oldal
... to him , which appease and exalt the beholder . There are no divine persons with us , and the multitude do not hasten to be divine . And yet we hold fast , all our lives long , a faith in a better life 112 DOMESTIC LIFE .
... to him , which appease and exalt the beholder . There are no divine persons with us , and the multitude do not hasten to be divine . And yet we hold fast , all our lives long , a faith in a better life 112 DOMESTIC LIFE .
113. oldal
Twelve Chapters Ralph Waldo Emerson. our lives long , a faith in a better life , in better men , in clean and noble relations , notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society . Certainly , this was not the intention of nature ...
Twelve Chapters Ralph Waldo Emerson. our lives long , a faith in a better life , in better men , in clean and noble relations , notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society . Certainly , this was not the intention of nature ...
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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.