Lectures and Biographical SketchesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 463 páginas |
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... elements . Thus , when awake , I know the character of Rupert , but do not think what he may do . In dreams I see him engaged in certain actions which seem preposterous , — out of all fitness . He is hostile , he is cruel , he is ...
... elements . Thus , when awake , I know the character of Rupert , but do not think what he may do . In dreams I see him engaged in certain actions which seem preposterous , — out of all fitness . He is hostile , he is cruel , he is ...
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... element of success ; that children and young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved dangerous to wiser people . We do not think the young will be forsaken ; but he is fast ap- proaching the age when the sub ...
... element of success ; that children and young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved dangerous to wiser people . We do not think the young will be forsaken ; but he is fast ap- proaching the age when the sub ...
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... element , so that the former may be called the warp , the latter the woof . For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names , since all philosophies and religions have attempted in prose or in poetry to solve this ...
... element , so that the former may be called the warp , the latter the woof . For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names , since all philosophies and religions have attempted in prose or in poetry to solve this ...
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... elements intermingle is not the less under the dominion of fatal law . Lord Bacon uncovers the magic when he says , " Manifest virtues procure reputation ; occult ones , fortune . " Thus the so - called fortunate man is one who , though ...
... elements intermingle is not the less under the dominion of fatal law . Lord Bacon uncovers the magic when he says , " Manifest virtues procure reputation ; occult ones , fortune . " Thus the so - called fortunate man is one who , though ...
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... elements of fortune ; so that in a particular circle and knot of affairs he is not so much his own man as the hand of nature and time . Just as his eye and hand work exactly together , - and to hit the mark with a stone he has only to ...
... elements of fortune ; so that in a particular circle and knot of affairs he is not so much his own man as the hand of nature and time . Just as his eye and hand work exactly together , - and to hit the mark with a stone he has only to ...
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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.