The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen9David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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... seems to have received the speculative impulses which enabled her to break away from the political conventionality of her time and become a leader in revolu- tion . Her earliest reading was of the great classical writers from whom she ...
... seems to have received the speculative impulses which enabled her to break away from the political conventionality of her time and become a leader in revolu- tion . Her earliest reading was of the great classical writers from whom she ...
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... seems that it is it which , acting on our organs in the most immediate manner , must principally disturb the liberty of the mind . Yet if it be true that the value which we attach to things makes almost their whole importance , and that ...
... seems that it is it which , acting on our organs in the most immediate manner , must principally disturb the liberty of the mind . Yet if it be true that the value which we attach to things makes almost their whole importance , and that ...
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... seems to me the firm resolution of acting always agreeably to this principle ; the highest degree of virtue is to do good with enthusiasm , because it is honorable and delightful . Sublime delirium , by which the exalted soul finds ...
... seems to me the firm resolution of acting always agreeably to this principle ; the highest degree of virtue is to do good with enthusiasm , because it is honorable and delightful . Sublime delirium , by which the exalted soul finds ...
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... seems to re- main ? I am frightened at the immensity of time that has been required to bring us only where we are . Enter into details : see every man , always confused by varied and successive impressions , - he acquires without ...
... seems to re- main ? I am frightened at the immensity of time that has been required to bring us only where we are . Enter into details : see every man , always confused by varied and successive impressions , - he acquires without ...
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... of stability of character which seems to be the radical infirmity of his nature . The astonishing versatility of his genius , the powerful analyt- ical faculty which characterized his intellect , and the incessant 3276 JEAN JACQUES ...
... of stability of character which seems to be the radical infirmity of his nature . The astonishing versatility of his genius , the powerful analyt- ical faculty which characterized his intellect , and the incessant 3276 JEAN JACQUES ...
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Página 3434 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Página 3609 - Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Página 3288 - Who saw the narrow sunbeam that came out of the south and smote upon their summits until they melted and mouldered away in a dust of blue rain? Who saw the dance of the dead clouds when the sunlight left them last night, and the west wind blew them before it like withered leaves?
Página 3288 - Who saw the dance of the dead clouds where the sunlight left them last night, and the west wind blew them before it like withered leaves? All has passed unregretted as unseen; or if the apathy be ever shaken off even for an instant, it is only by what is gross, or what is extraordinary. And yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, nor in the clash of the hail, nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not...
Página 3549 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Página 3453 - How many merchants and carriers, besides, must have been employed in transporting the materials from some of those workmen to others who often live in a very distant part of the country ? How much commerce and navigation in particular, how many ship-builders, sailors, sail-makers, rope-makers, must have been employed in order to bring together the different drugs made use of by the dyer, which often come from the remotest corners of the world...
Página 3388 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music ; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Página 3396 - It is not that I adulate the people: Without me, there are demagogues enough, And infidels, to pull down every steeple, And set up in their stead some proper stuff. Whether they may sow scepticism to reap hell, As is the Christian dogma rather rough, I do not know; — I wish men to be free As much from mobs as kings— from you as me.
Página 3275 - We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Página 3439 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.