Society and Solitude: Twelve ChaptersFields, Osgood & Company, 1870 - 300 oldal |
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25. oldal
... never wrought by needle and thread , — and it went like a charm . - I admire still more than the saw - mill the skill which , on the sea - shore , makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn , and which thus engages the assistance ...
... never wrought by needle and thread , — and it went like a charm . - I admire still more than the saw - mill the skill which , on the sea - shore , makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn , and which thus engages the assistance ...
26. oldal
... never go out of their road . We are dapper lit- tle busybodies , and run this way and that way superserviceably ; but they swerve never from their foreordained paths , neither the sun , nor the moon , nor a bubble of air , nor a mote of ...
... never go out of their road . We are dapper lit- tle busybodies , and run this way and that way superserviceably ; but they swerve never from their foreordained paths , neither the sun , nor the moon , nor a bubble of air , nor a mote of ...
50. oldal
... never was in the power of any man , or any community , to call the arts into being . They come to serve his actual wants , never to please his fancy . These arts have their origin always in some enthusiasm , as love , patriotism , or ...
... never was in the power of any man , or any community , to call the arts into being . They come to serve his actual wants , never to please his fancy . These arts have their origin always in some enthusiasm , as love , patriotism , or ...
64. oldal
... never none . " Homer specially delighted in drawing the same figure . For what is the " Odyssey " but a history of the orator , in the largest style , carried through a series of adventures furnishing brilliant oppor- tunities to his ...
... never none . " Homer specially delighted in drawing the same figure . For what is the " Odyssey " but a history of the orator , in the largest style , carried through a series of adventures furnishing brilliant oppor- tunities to his ...
65. oldal
... never down , and he persuades the very spec- tators to believe him . " Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes , on hearing the report of one of his orations , " Had I been there , he would have per- suaded me to take up arms against ...
... never down , and he persuades the very spec- tators to believe him . " Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes , on hearing the report of one of his orations , " Had I been there , he would have per- suaded me to take up arms against ...
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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.