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... spirit , re- minding you of the stranger whom you received as a guest , and who became a friend , to converse with you of former days spent on your hearths , to thank and to bless you , and not merely you , whose guest I was , but the ...
... spirit , re- minding you of the stranger whom you received as a guest , and who became a friend , to converse with you of former days spent on your hearths , to thank and to bless you , and not merely you , whose guest I was , but the ...
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... upon the life and his- tory of antiquity . Some great and beautiful thoughts , nevertheless , run through the book , like a refreshing breeze . In them I recognize that noble spirit before 8 HOMES OF THE NEW WORLD .
... upon the life and his- tory of antiquity . Some great and beautiful thoughts , nevertheless , run through the book , like a refreshing breeze . In them I recognize that noble spirit before 8 HOMES OF THE NEW WORLD .
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Impressions of America Fredrika Bremer. breeze . In them I recognize that noble spirit before which I often bowed myself in awe , and before which I bowed last when reading her " Life in a Sick - room . " The calmest day ... spirit before ...
Impressions of America Fredrika Bremer. breeze . In them I recognize that noble spirit before which I often bowed myself in awe , and before which I bowed last when reading her " Life in a Sick - room . " The calmest day ... spirit before ...
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... spirit within me . I consider my- self especially fortunate in coming in contact with Mr. Downing , a noble and acutely discriminating spirit , a true American , yet without blind patriotism , an open heart , a critically sagacious ...
... spirit within me . I consider my- self especially fortunate in coming in contact with Mr. Downing , a noble and acutely discriminating spirit , a true American , yet without blind patriotism , an open heart , a critically sagacious ...
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... poem , " The Poor Man's Son , " which charms me by its melody , and by its impartial spirit - which is moral melody , and by that cheerful truth which it utters in the prospects for the poor man's HOMES OF THE NEW WORLD . 27.
... poem , " The Poor Man's Son , " which charms me by its melody , and by its impartial spirit - which is moral melody , and by that cheerful truth which it utters in the prospects for the poor man's HOMES OF THE NEW WORLD . 27.
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The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, Volume 1 Fredrika Bremer Visualização completa - 1853 |
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Página 157 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Página 157 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Página 158 - 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.
Página 157 - 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 connection of events.
Página 158 - The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
Página 160 - ... to live in truth. Does this sound harsh to-day? You will soon love what is dictated by your nature as well as mine, and if we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last.
Página 162 - I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a manly resistance, to find a mush of concession. Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
Página 184 - ... to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Página 162 - Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness, that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party. Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend should overstep by a word or a look his real sympathy. I am equally baulked by antagonism and by compliance. Let him not cease an instant to be himself. The only joy I have in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.
Página 91 - Their inspiration, and perchance the best: They felt, and loved, and died, but would not lend Their thoughts to meaner beings; they...