Essays, orations and lecturesW. Tegg & Company, 1848 - 385 стор. |
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... heaven an immortal sign ? London , and Paris , and New York , must go the same way . " What is history , " said Napo- leon , " but a fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul , England , war ...
... heaven an immortal sign ? London , and Paris , and New York , must go the same way . " What is history , " said Napo- leon , " but a fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul , England , war ...
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... stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every man is a divinity in disguise , a god playing the fool . It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum , 18 ESSAYS .
... stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every man is a divinity in disguise , a god playing the fool . It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum , 18 ESSAYS .
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... heaven ; then the mad fit returns , and they mope and wallow like dogs . When the gods come among men , they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shakspeare were not . Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules , but every ...
... heaven ; then the mad fit returns , and they mope and wallow like dogs . When the gods come among men , they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shakspeare were not . Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules , but every ...
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... heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pre- tending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one ...
... heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pre- tending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one ...
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... heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashful- ness and phlegm which for weeks has done nothing but eat when you were by , that now rolls out these words like bell - strokes . It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries ...
... heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashful- ness and phlegm which for weeks has done nothing but eat when you were by , that now rolls out these words like bell - strokes . It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries ...
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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.