Lectures and Biographical SketchesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 463 páginas |
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... believe that men are sacred and fa- vorites of Heaven . " The poor shipmaster discovered a sound theology , when in the storm at sea he made his prayer to Neptune , " O God , thou mayst save me if thou wilt , and if thou wilt thou mayst ...
... believe that men are sacred and fa- vorites of Heaven . " The poor shipmaster discovered a sound theology , when in the storm at sea he made his prayer to Neptune , " O God , thou mayst save me if thou wilt , and if thou wilt thou mayst ...
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... believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know , And so far will I trust thee , gentle Kate . " They are ignorant of all that is healthy and useful to know , and by laws of kind , dunces seeking dunces in the dark of what they call ...
... believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know , And so far will I trust thee , gentle Kate . " They are ignorant of all that is healthy and useful to know , and by laws of kind , dunces seeking dunces in the dark of what they call ...
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... believe they were all such speedy shadows as we ; that an ague or fever , a drop of water or a crystal of ice ended them . We give soldiers the same advantage to - day . From the most accumulated culture we are always running back to ...
... believe they were all such speedy shadows as we ; that an ague or fever , a drop of water or a crystal of ice ended them . We give soldiers the same advantage to - day . From the most accumulated culture we are always running back to ...
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... believe in the closest affinity between moral and material power . Virtue and genius are always on the direct way to the control of the society in which they are found . It is the interest of society that good men should govern , and ...
... believe in the closest affinity between moral and material power . Virtue and genius are always on the direct way to the control of the society in which they are found . It is the interest of society that good men should govern , and ...
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... believe that they had to the lively Greek the anxious meaning which , in our towns , is given and re- ceived in churches when our religious names are used : and we read with surprise the horror of Athens when , one morning , the statues ...
... believe that they had to the lively Greek the anxious meaning which , in our towns , is given and re- ceived in churches when our religious names are used : and we read with surprise the horror of Athens when , one morning , the statues ...
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Página 81 - 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 371 - 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 365 - ... to be revered and admired by his townsmen, who had at first known him only as an oddity. The farmers who employed him as a surveyor soon discovered his rare accuracy and skill, his knowledge of their lands, of trees, of birds, of Indian remains and the like, which enabled him to tell every farmer more than he knew before of his own farm ; so that he began to feel a little as if Mr. Thoreau had better rights in his land than he.
Página 80 - 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 370 - the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to be born in London, or Paris, or Rome; but, poor fellows, they did what they could, considering that they never saw Bateman's Pond, or...
Página 233 - O wad ye tak' a thought and mend! " He is a philosopher with philosophers, a naturalist with naturalists, and sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers, now and then, at a long distance behind him, or respectfully skipping to the next chapter.' But this scholastic omniscience of our author engages a new respect, since they hope he understands his own diagram. He perpetually suggests Montaigne, who was the best reader he has ever found, though Montaigne excelled his master in the point...
Página 357 - He could estimate the measure of a tree very well by his eye; he could estimate the weight of a calf or a pig, like a dealer. From a box containing a bushel or more of loose pencils, he could take up with his hands fast enough just a dozen pencils at every grasp. He was a good swimmer, runner, skater, boatman, and would probably outwalk most countrymen in a day's journey. And the relation of body to mind was still finer than we have indicated. He said he wanted every stride his legs made. The length...
Página 359 - ... search of, the man of men, who could tell them all they should do. His own dealing with them was never affectionate, but superior, didactic; scorning their petty ways; very slowly conceding or not conceding at all the promise of his society at their houses or even at his own. "Would he not walk with them?" — He did not know. There was nothing so important to him as his walk; he had no walks to throw away on company.
Página 109 - It is ominous, a presumption of crime, that this word Education has so cold, so hopeless a sound. A treatise on education, a convention for education, a lecture, a system, affects us with slight paralysis and a certain yawning of the jaws.
Página 290 - 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.