Works, Volumen10Houghton Mifflin, 1883 |
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... honor , the wish to be gentlemen . They do not yet covet political power , nor any exuberance of wealth , wealth that costs too much ; nor do they wish to be saints ; for fear of partialism ; but the middle term , the reconciling ...
... honor , the wish to be gentlemen . They do not yet covet political power , nor any exuberance of wealth , wealth that costs too much ; nor do they wish to be saints ; for fear of partialism ; but the middle term , the reconciling ...
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... honor , accomplished in all arts and generosities , which seems to them the right mark and the true chief of our modern society . A reference to society is part of the idea of culture ; science of a gentle man ; art of a gentleman ...
... honor , accomplished in all arts and generosities , which seems to them the right mark and the true chief of our modern society . A reference to society is part of the idea of culture ; science of a gentle man ; art of a gentleman ...
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... honored by render- ing it honor , and the reason of this allowance is that Genius unlocks for all men the chains of use , temperament and drudgery , and gives them a sense of delicious liberty and power . The first example that occurs ...
... honored by render- ing it honor , and the reason of this allowance is that Genius unlocks for all men the chains of use , temperament and drudgery , and gives them a sense of delicious liberty and power . The first example that occurs ...
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... Honor . I know the feeling of the most ingenious and ex- cellent youth in America ; I hear the complaint of the aspirant that we have no prizes offered to the ambition of virtuous young men ; that there is no Theban Band ; no stern ...
... Honor . I know the feeling of the most ingenious and ex- cellent youth in America ; I hear the complaint of the aspirant that we have no prizes offered to the ambition of virtuous young men ; that there is no Theban Band ; no stern ...
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... honor of a member consists in an in- differency to the persons and practices about him , and in the pursuing undisturbed the career of a Brother , as if always in their presence , and as if no other existed . Give up , once for all ...
... honor of a member consists in an in- differency to the persons and practices about him , and in the pursuing undisturbed the career of a Brother , as if always in their presence , and as if no other existed . Give up , once for all ...
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Página 96 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Página 98 - Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — "Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Página 230 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Página 449 - The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
Página 311 - Instead of the social existence which all shared, was now separation. Every one for himself; driven to find all his resources, hopes, rewards, society and deity within himself. The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
Página 96 - Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing...
Página 352 - If the assembly was disorderly, it was picturesque. Madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers, Groaners, Agrarians, Seventh-day Baptists, Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians, and Philosophers, — all came successively to the top and seized their moment, if not their hour, wherein to chide, or pray, or preach, or protest.
Página 444 - Now chiefly is my natal hour. And only now my prime of life; I will not doubt the love untold. Which not my worth nor want have bought, Which wooed me young, and wooes me old, And to this evening hath me brought.
Página 444 - ... and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks, and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud; and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.
Página 336 - I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time too.