Essays of Robert Louis StevensonC. Scribner's Sons, 1906 - 184 páginas |
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... tion ; where the writer takes the reader entirely into his confidence , and chats pleasantly with him on topics that may be as widely apart as the immortal- ity of the soul and the proper colour of a necktie . The first and supreme ...
... tion ; where the writer takes the reader entirely into his confidence , and chats pleasantly with him on topics that may be as widely apart as the immortal- ity of the soul and the proper colour of a necktie . The first and supreme ...
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... tion . Wherever the land had the chance , it seemed to lie fallow . There is a certain tawny nudity of the South , bare sunburnt plains , coloured like a lion , and hills clothed only in the blue transparent air ; but this was of ...
... tion . Wherever the land had the chance , it seemed to lie fallow . There is a certain tawny nudity of the South , bare sunburnt plains , coloured like a lion , and hills clothed only in the blue transparent air ; but this was of ...
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... tion for those who know little of stocks ; literary persons despise the unlettered ; and people of all pursuits combine to disparage those who have none . But though this is one difficulty of the subject , it is not the greatest . You ...
... tion for those who know little of stocks ; literary persons despise the unlettered ; and people of all pursuits combine to disparage those who have none . But though this is one difficulty of the subject , it is not the greatest . You ...
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... tion ; and the old shepherd telling his tale under the hawthorn . Extreme busyness , whether at school or college , kirk or market , is a symptom of deficient vitality ; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a ...
... tion ; and the old shepherd telling his tale under the hawthorn . Extreme busyness , whether at school or college , kirk or market , is a symptom of deficient vitality ; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a ...
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... tion ; they do a better thing than that , they practically demonstrate the great Theorum of the liveableness of Life . Consequently , if a person cannot be happy without remaining idle , idle he should remain . It is a revolutionary ...
... tion ; they do a better thing than that , they practically demonstrate the great Theorum of the liveableness of Life . Consequently , if a person cannot be happy without remaining idle , idle he should remain . It is a revolutionary ...
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Página 93 - OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate...
Página 53 - A spirit goes out of the man who means execution, which outlives the most untimely ending^ All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it. / Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Página 53 - By all means begin your folio ; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
Página 31 - If he had looked pleased before, he had now to look both pleased and mystified. For my part, I justify this encouragement of smiling rather than tearful children; I do not wish to pay for tears anywhere but upon the stage; but I am prepared to deal largely in the opposite commodity. A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
Página 120 - So I saw in my dream that the man began to run. Now, he had not run far from his own door, but his wife and children perceiving it, began to cry after him to return; but the man put his fingers in his ears, and ran on, crying, Life! life! eternal life!
Página 24 - Is not this the hour of the class? and shouldst thou not be plying thy Book with diligence, to the end thou mayest obtain knowledge?" "Nay, but thus also I follow after Learning, by your leave." "Learning, quotha! After what fashion, I pray thee? Is it mathematics ?
Página 29 - ... the general result. You are no doubt very dependent on the care of your lawyer and stockbroker, of the guards and signalmen who convey you rapidly from place to place, and the policemen who walk the streets for your protection; but is there not a thought of gratitude in your heart for certain other benefactors who set you smiling when they fall in your way, or season your dinner with good company...
Página 183 - Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
Página 24 - ... of learning. Nor is the truant always in the streets ; for if he prefers, he may go out by the gardened suburbs into the country. He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn, and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones. A bird will sing in the thicket. And there he may fall into a vein of kindly thought, and see things in a new perspective. Why, if this be not education, what is ? We may conceive Mr. Worldly Wiseman accosting such an one, and the conversation that should...
Página 33 - ... and centrepoint of all the universe? And yet it is not so. The ends for which they give away their priceless youth, for all they know, may be chimerical or hurtful; the glory and riches they expect may never come, or may find them indifferent; and they and the world they inhabit are so inconsiderable that the mind freezes at the thought.