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... words of his have become so widely known as the following stanza of that hymn : - " By the rude bridge that arched the flood , Their flag to April's breeze unfurled , Here once the embattled farmers stood , And fired the shot heard ...
... words of his have become so widely known as the following stanza of that hymn : - " By the rude bridge that arched the flood , Their flag to April's breeze unfurled , Here once the embattled farmers stood , And fired the shot heard ...
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... words . While his paragraphs and essays are not to be studied as models of structure , his sentences are marvellously condensed , dig- nified , strong , and eloquent . In the well - known phrase of Ben Jonson , " his words are rammed ...
... words . While his paragraphs and essays are not to be studied as models of structure , his sentences are marvellously condensed , dig- nified , strong , and eloquent . In the well - known phrase of Ben Jonson , " his words are rammed ...
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... words with necessarily too brief and incomplete definitions narrows the student's study of language ; and to make the notes a key to unlock every door to the author's thought robs the reader of his rarest privilege and the sure means of ...
... words with necessarily too brief and incomplete definitions narrows the student's study of language ; and to make the notes a key to unlock every door to the author's thought robs the reader of his rarest privilege and the sure means of ...
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... word gentleman , which , like the word Christian , must hereafter characterize the present and the few preceding centuries , by the importance attached to it , is a homage to personal and incommunicable properties . 20 Frivolous and ...
... word gentleman , which , like the word Christian , must hereafter characterize the present and the few preceding centuries , by the importance attached to it , is a homage to personal and incommunicable properties . 20 Frivolous and ...
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... word of narrow and often sinister meaning , and the heroic character which the gentleman imports . The usual words ... word denotes good - nature and benevolence : manhood first , and then gentleness . 30 The popular notion certainly ...
... word of narrow and often sinister meaning , and the heroic character which the gentleman imports . The usual words ... word denotes good - nature and benevolence : manhood first , and then gentleness . 30 The popular notion certainly ...
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Página 65 - 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.
Página 207 - We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.
Página 66 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Página 73 - 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. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Página 185 - 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 68 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Página 66 - 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 196 - The mind now thinks, now acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended and books are a weariness — he has always the resource to live.
Página 68 - 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 191 - They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.