Essays, orations and lecturesW. Tegg & Company, 1848 - 385 стор. |
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... give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn ; and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , Ame- rica , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after ...
... give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn ; and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , Ame- rica , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after ...
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... gives worth to par- ticular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason , all express at last reverence for ...
... gives worth to par- ticular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason , all express at last reverence for ...
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... the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer , and not far different is the picture Xenophon gives of himself and his compatriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand : " After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia , there fell 14 ESSAYS .
... the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer , and not far different is the picture Xenophon gives of himself and his compatriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand : " After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia , there fell 14 ESSAYS .
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... gives as good as he gets . Who does not see that this is a gang of great boys , with such a code of honour and such lax disci- pline as great boys have ? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy , and indeed of all the old literature ...
... gives as good as he gets . Who does not see that this is a gang of great boys , with such a code of honour and such lax disci- pline as great boys have ? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy , and indeed of all the old literature ...
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... gives the history of reli- gion with some closeness to the faith of later ages . Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology . He is the friend of man ; stands between the unjust " justice " of the eternal Father , and the race of ...
... gives the history of reli- gion with some closeness to the faith of later ages . Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology . He is the friend of man ; stands between the unjust " justice " of the eternal Father , and the race of ...
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Сторінка 32 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Сторінка 26 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.
Сторінка 27 - Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
Сторінка 33 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Сторінка 156 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Сторінка 69 - They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Сторінка 1 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Сторінка 28 - ... what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul...
Сторінка 60 - The mind now thinks, now acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended and books are a weariness — he has always the resource to live.
Сторінка 30 - What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.