Twelve EssaysG. Slater, 1849 - 261 стор. |
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... human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the ...
... human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the ...
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... human mind wrote history and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation be- tween the hours of our life ...
... human mind wrote history and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation be- tween the hours of our life ...
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... 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 least reverence for some command of this supreme illimitable ...
... 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 least reverence for some command of this supreme illimitable ...
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... human na- ture ; that is all . We must in our own nature see the necessary reason for every fact , -see how it could and must be . So stand before every public , every private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of ...
... human na- ture ; that is all . We must in our own nature see the necessary reason for every fact , -see how it could and must be . So stand before every public , every private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of ...
Сторінка 20
... as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer has passed onward . This is precisely the thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies which breaks off on the approach of human feet 20 ESSAY I.
... as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer has passed onward . This is precisely the thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies which breaks off on the approach of human feet 20 ESSAY I.
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Сторінка 43 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it.
Сторінка 48 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Сторінка 40 - A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events.
Сторінка 51 - Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation of Luther; Quakerism of Fox; Methodism of Wesley; Abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome"; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest...
Сторінка 45 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Сторінка 63 - Our sympathy is just as base. We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason.
Сторінка 38 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
Сторінка 138 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought.
Сторінка 92 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Сторінка 69 - Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind.