Lectures and Biographical SketchesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 463 páginas |
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... give us one syllable , one feature , one hint , and we should repossess the whole ; hours of this strange entertainment would come trooping back to us ; but we cannot get our hand on the first link or fibre , and the whole is lost ...
... give us one syllable , one feature , one hint , and we should repossess the whole ; hours of this strange entertainment would come trooping back to us ; but we cannot get our hand on the first link or fibre , and the whole is lost ...
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... give evidence . Then I say to the amiable and sincere among them , these matters are quite too important than that I can rest them on any legends . If I have no facts , as you allege , I can very well wait for them . I am content and ...
... give evidence . Then I say to the amiable and sincere among them , these matters are quite too important than that I can rest them on any legends . If I have no facts , as you allege , I can very well wait for them . I am content and ...
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... care of this unfortunate bird ? How could this fowl give us any wise directions respecting our journey , when he could not save his own life ? Had he known anything of fu- turity , he would not have come here to be 2 DEMONOLOGY . 17.
... care of this unfortunate bird ? How could this fowl give us any wise directions respecting our journey , when he could not save his own life ? Had he known anything of fu- turity , he would not have come here to be 2 DEMONOLOGY . 17.
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... give soldiers the same advantage to - day . From the most accumulated culture we are always running back to the sound of any drum and fife . And in any trade , or in law - courts , in orchard and farm , and even in sa- loons , they only ...
... give soldiers the same advantage to - day . From the most accumulated culture we are always running back to the sound of any drum and fife . And in any trade , or in law - courts , in orchard and farm , and even in sa- loons , they only ...
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... give the fairest verdict and reward ; better than any royal patronage ; better than any premium on race ; better than any statute elevating families to hereditary distinction , or any class to sacerdotal education and power . The ...
... give the fairest verdict and reward ; better than any royal patronage ; better than any premium on race ; better than any statute elevating families to hereditary distinction , or any class to sacerdotal education and power . The ...
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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.