Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. |
De dentro do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 69
Página 11
... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is this universal nature which gives worth to par- ticular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws ...
... persons of Solomon , Alcibiades , and Catiline . It is this universal nature which gives worth to par- ticular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws ...
Página 13
... person . He must sit at home with might and main , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the point of view ...
... person . He must sit at home with might and main , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the point of view ...
Página 15
... person as himself , so armed and so motived , and to ends to which he himself in given circumstances should also have worked , the problem is then solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs ...
... person as himself , so armed and so motived , and to ends to which he himself in given circumstances should also have worked , the problem is then solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs ...
Página 17
... Xeno- phon , Plutarch , have given it — a very sufficient ac- count of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . Then we have the same soul expressed for B us again in their literature ; in poems , drama HISTORY . 17.
... Xeno- phon , Plutarch , have given it — a very sufficient ac- count of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . Then we have the same soul expressed for B us again in their literature ; in poems , drama HISTORY . 17.
Página 25
... persons speak simply , speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration HISTORY . 25 25.
... persons speak simply , speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration HISTORY . 25 25.
Outras edições - Ver todos
Termos e frases comuns
action affection appear beauty becomes behold better black event Bonduca Cæsar character circle conversation divine doctrine Egypt Epaminondas eternal experience fact fear feel FREDERIKA BREMER friendship genius gifts give Greek hand heart heaven Heraclitus heroism highest hour human imagination instinct intellect labour less light live look lose man's marriage mind moral nature never noble object OVER-SOUL painted pass perception perfect persons Petrarch Phidias Phocion Pindar Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry proverb prudence Pyrrhonism racter relations religion Rome sculpture secret seek seems seen sense sentiment society Socrates Sophocles soul speak spect Spinoza spirit stand stoicism sweet talent teach thee things thou thought tion to-day to-morrow true truth universal Vathek virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words Xenophon youth
Passagens mais conhecidas
Página 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.
Página 38 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Página 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.
Página 42 - What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live then from the Devil.
Página 48 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Página 67 - Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Página 195 - ... counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when it flows through his affection, it is love.
Página 45 - 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.
Página 138 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought.
Página 90 - Some damning circumstance always transpires. The laws and substances of nature water, snow, wind, gravitation - become penalties to the thief. On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.