Essays for College Men: 2d SeriesH. Holt, 1915 - 385 páginas |
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... RELIGION OF HUMANITY 190 Arthur James Balfour . VIII . THE PROVINCES OF THE SEVERAL ARTS John Addington Symonds . 218 IX . LITERATURE 243 John Henry Newman . Books 277 Ralph Waldo Emerson . XI . THE WORKING OF THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY 307 ...
... RELIGION OF HUMANITY 190 Arthur James Balfour . VIII . THE PROVINCES OF THE SEVERAL ARTS John Addington Symonds . 218 IX . LITERATURE 243 John Henry Newman . Books 277 Ralph Waldo Emerson . XI . THE WORKING OF THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY 307 ...
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... if they come to you , and , on the other hand , next to religion , will prove the truest con- solation of adversity and disappointment , of worldly care and sorrow . ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP ' PAUL ELMER MORE ANY one who has 40 JOHN CAIRD.
... if they come to you , and , on the other hand , next to religion , will prove the truest con- solation of adversity and disappointment , of worldly care and sorrow . ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP ' PAUL ELMER MORE ANY one who has 40 JOHN CAIRD.
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... religion the bases of society have been somehow weakened . Now , 1 Reprinted through the generous permission of Paul Elmer More and the editor of The Unpopular Review , copy- right , 1914 , by Henry Holt and Company . This essay was ...
... religion the bases of society have been somehow weakened . Now , 1 Reprinted through the generous permission of Paul Elmer More and the editor of The Unpopular Review , copy- right , 1914 , by Henry Holt and Company . This essay was ...
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... religion , we are in dan- ger of falling a prey to the disorganizing and vul- garizing domination of ambitions which should be the servants and not the masters of society . Certainly , in the sphere of education there is a growing ...
... religion , we are in dan- ger of falling a prey to the disorganizing and vul- garizing domination of ambitions which should be the servants and not the masters of society . Certainly , in the sphere of education there is a growing ...
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... religion to Hooker , from whom it passed into all that is best and least ephemeral in the Anglican Church . It was the basis , more modestly expressed , of Blackstone's conception of the British Constitution and of lib- erty under law ...
... religion to Hooker , from whom it passed into all that is best and least ephemeral in the Anglican Church . It was the basis , more modestly expressed , of Blackstone's conception of the British Constitution and of lib- erty under law ...
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Página 255 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Página 256 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not ' seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Página 60 - O'er-run and trampled on : then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours; For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer ; welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Página 99 - What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan ; the ballad in the street...
Página 377 - If now — and this is my idea — there were, instead of military conscription a conscription of the whole youthful population to form for a certain number of years a part of the army enlisted against nature, the injustice would tend to be evened out, and numerous other goods to the commonwealth would follow.
Página 83 - One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, " He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.'' There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Página 75 - The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun ; and, after sunset, night and her stars. • Ever the winds blow ; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages.
Página 377 - To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes-washing, and window-washing, to roadbuilding and tunnel-making, to foundries and stokeholes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas.
Página 81 - Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
Página 185 - That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.