Lectures and Biographical SketchesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 463 páginas |
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... object , and ready to answer for their actions with their life . The existence of an upper class is not injurious , as long as it is dependent on merit . For so long it is prov- ocation to the bold and generous . These distinctions ...
... object , and ready to answer for their actions with their life . The existence of an upper class is not injurious , as long as it is dependent on merit . For so long it is prov- ocation to the bold and generous . These distinctions ...
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... objects . It is essentially real . The multiplication of monarchs known by telegraph and daily news from all countries to the daily papers , and the effect of freer institutions in England and America , has robbed the title of king of ...
... objects . It is essentially real . The multiplication of monarchs known by telegraph and daily news from all countries to the daily papers , and the effect of freer institutions in England and America , has robbed the title of king of ...
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... objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself . Is there any parchment or any cosmetic or any blood that can obtain homage like that security of air presupposing so un- doubtingly the sympathy of men in his designs ? What is ...
... objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself . Is there any parchment or any cosmetic or any blood that can obtain homage like that security of air presupposing so un- doubtingly the sympathy of men in his designs ? What is ...
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... object of the State is the greatest good of the greatest number , - so , the reason we must give for the existence of the world is , that it is for the benefit of all being . Morals implies freedom and will . The will consti- tutes the ...
... object of the State is the greatest good of the greatest number , - so , the reason we must give for the existence of the world is , that it is for the benefit of all being . Morals implies freedom and will . The will consti- tutes the ...
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... object in Nature draw music out of his mind . Is it not true that every landscape I behold , ev- ery friend I meet , every act I perform , every pain I suffer , leaves me a different being from that they found me ? That poverty , love ...
... object in Nature draw music out of his mind . Is it not true that every landscape I behold , ev- ery friend I meet , every act I perform , every pain I suffer , leaves me a different being from that they found me ? That poverty , love ...
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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.