Points of ViewC. Scribner's sons, 1924 - 361 páginas |
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... give unity of purpose to a generation which seems all at loose ends is like the first step of the book agent : it is an appeal to what this generation believes in . The effective first step for the religious leader is not to revive and ...
... give unity of purpose to a generation which seems all at loose ends is like the first step of the book agent : it is an appeal to what this generation believes in . The effective first step for the religious leader is not to revive and ...
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... gives ten dollars . If his own children conceive any enterprise , tainted with novelty , scandal , or promise of vivid interest , they first conspire with their mother to placate him , knowing for certain that " Dad will oppose it ...
... gives ten dollars . If his own children conceive any enterprise , tainted with novelty , scandal , or promise of vivid interest , they first conspire with their mother to placate him , knowing for certain that " Dad will oppose it ...
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Stuart Pratt Sherman. As soon as he exacts nothing of it , it gives him all- all its qualities for his discrimination and delecta- tion . There is no way to return to his youth by retracing the caterpillar progress of the senses or by ...
Stuart Pratt Sherman. As soon as he exacts nothing of it , it gives him all- all its qualities for his discrimination and delecta- tion . There is no way to return to his youth by retracing the caterpillar progress of the senses or by ...
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... give his romance even more substance and mean- ing than Scott's historiography . And then con- sider his actual ' contributions . ' His Indians were unprecedented , and they remain unsurpassed for vigor and fidelity . Balzac praised his ...
... give his romance even more substance and mean- ing than Scott's historiography . And then con- sider his actual ' contributions . ' His Indians were unprecedented , and they remain unsurpassed for vigor and fidelity . Balzac praised his ...
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... give it the central place in their programme of reading or they will be obliged to remain ignorant of their own national culture and its chief instrument . At the present time it is a conservative estimate to say that nine - tenths of ...
... give it the central place in their programme of reading or they will be obliged to remain ignorant of their own national culture and its chief instrument . At the present time it is a conservative estimate to say that nine - tenths of ...
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Página 66 - All strength, all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah, with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones, — I pass them unalarmed.
Página 161 - The literature of the poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time.
Página 73 - Lifting himself out of the lowly dust On golden plumes up to the purest skie...
Página 143 - I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in: What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?
Página 162 - I want the flower and fruit of a man ; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse. His goodness must not be a partial and transitory act, but a constant superfluity, which costs him nothing and of which he is unconscious.
Página 162 - I embrace the common; I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Página 214 - ... carry things on further. I don't know. But I do get a kind of sneaking pleasure out of the fact that you knew what you wanted to do and did it. Well, those folks in there will try to bully you, and tame you down. Tell 'em to go to the devil! I'll back you. Take your factory job, if you want to. Don't be scared of the family. No, nor all of Zenith. Nor of yourself, the way I've been. Go ahead, old man! The world is yours!
Página 253 - When I a verse shall make, Know I have pray'd thee, For old religion's sake, Saint Ben, to aid me. Make the way smooth for me, When, I, thy Herrick, Honouring thee on my knee Offer my Lyric. Candles l11 give to thee, And a new altar ; And thou, Saint Ben, shalt be Writ in my psalter.
Página 66 - But that which did please me beyond any thing in the whole world was the wind-musique when the angel comes down, which is so sweet that it ravished me, and indeed, in a word, did wrap up my soul so that it made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with my wife...
Página 156 - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigor and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling, that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth; so to be patriots, as not to forget we are gentlemen.