Essays, orations and lecturesW. Tegg & Company, 1848 - 385 páginas |
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... our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our own actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot , lose all their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can 2 ESSAYS .
... our too great nearness to ourselves . This throws our own actions into perspective : and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot , lose all their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can 2 ESSAYS .
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... lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes , there we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that ...
... lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes , there we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that ...
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... lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere or other , some time or other , it will demand and find compensation for that loss by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in ...
... lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere or other , some time or other , it will demand and find compensation for that loss by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in ...
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... lose all pledge , and having observed , observe again from the same unaffected , un- biased , unbribable , unaffrighted innocence , must always be formidable , must always engage the poet's and the man's regards . Of such an immortal ...
... lose all pledge , and having observed , observe again from the same unaffected , un- biased , unbribable , unaffrighted innocence , must always be formidable , must always engage the poet's and the man's regards . Of such an immortal ...
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... loses your time , and blurs the impression of your cha- racter . If you maintain a dead church , contribute to a dead Bible Society , vote with a great party either for the Government or against it , spread your table like base ...
... loses your time , and blurs the impression of your cha- racter . If you maintain a dead church , contribute to a dead Bible Society , vote with a great party either for the Government or against it , spread your table like base ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 33 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.