Essays and English TraitsP.F. Collier & son, 1909 - 493 páginas |
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... party , town and country , nation and world , must also soar and sing . Of course , he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom . I will not shut myself out of this globe of action , and ...
... party , town and country , nation and world , must also soar and sing . Of course , he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom . I will not shut myself out of this globe of action , and ...
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... party , the section , to which we belong ; and our opinion predicted geographically , as the north , or the south ? Not so , brothers and friends , —please God , ours shall not be so . We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with ...
... party , the section , to which we belong ; and our opinion predicted geographically , as the north , or the south ? Not so , brothers and friends , —please God , ours shall not be so . We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with ...
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... party to any of these things . Custom does it for me , gives me no power therefrom , and runs me in debt to boot . We spend our incomes for paint and paper , for a hundred trifles , I know not what , and not for the things of a man ...
... party to any of these things . Custom does it for me , gives me no power therefrom , and runs me in debt to boot . We spend our incomes for paint and paper , for a hundred trifles , I know not what , and not for the things of a man ...
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... party either for the Government or against it , spread your table like base housekeepers , -under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are . And of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life ...
... party either for the Government or against it , spread your table like base housekeepers , -under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are . And of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life ...
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... party to which we adhere . We come to wear one cut of face and figure , and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression . There is a mortifying ex- perience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself . also in the ...
... party to which we adhere . We come to wear one cut of face and figure , and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression . There is a mortifying ex- perience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself . also in the ...
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Página 5 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
Página 21 - What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin, the milk in the pan, the ballad in the street, the news of the boat, the glance of the eye, the form and the gait of the body...
Página 138 - When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I am a pensioner; not a cause, but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water; that I desire and look up, and put myself in the attitude of reception, but from some alien energy the visions come.
Página 6 - In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
Página 18 - ... like an ostrich in the flowering bushes, peeping into microscopes, and turning rhymes, as a boy whistles to keep his courage up. So is the danger a danger still ; so is the fear worse. Manlike let him turn and face it. Let him look into its eye and search its nature, inspect its origin, — see the whelping of this lion, — which lies no great way back; he will then find in himself a perfect comprehension of its nature and extent ; he will have made his hands meet on the other side, and can...
Página 15 - ... inspiring and expiring of the breath; in desire and satiety; in the ebb and flow of the sea; in day and night; in heat and cold; and as yet more deeply ingrained in every atom and every fluid, is known to us under the name of polarity — these " fits of easy transmission and reflection," as Newton called them, are the law of nature because they are the law of spirit.
Página 9 - The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, the act of thought, is transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man : henceforth the chant is divine also.
Página 63 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,— that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
Página 181 - These are auxiliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man, to his passage out into free space, and they help him to escape the custody of that body in which he is pent up, and of that jail-yard of individual relations in which he is enclosed.
Página 84 - We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties lean, and follow the Past and the Distant.