Lectures and Biographical SketchesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 463 páginas |
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... seemed permeable to that . It seemed to deal at pleasure with the necessary ele- ments of our constitution ; it shortened time and ex- tended space . Only in the impossible it seemed to delight , and the possible to repel with contempt ...
... seemed permeable to that . It seemed to deal at pleasure with the necessary ele- ments of our constitution ; it shortened time and ex- tended space . Only in the impossible it seemed to delight , and the possible to repel with contempt ...
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... seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood — of magicians and fairies and lamps of Aladdin , the trav- elling cloak , the shoes of swiftness and the sword of sharpness that were to satisfy the ...
... seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood — of magicians and fairies and lamps of Aladdin , the trav- elling cloak , the shoes of swiftness and the sword of sharpness that were to satisfy the ...
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... seemed to him to be baptizing their own fingers , the rite of bap- tism was getting late in the world . Or when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India put ob- stacles in the way of schools , ( as is CHARACTER . 89.
... seemed to him to be baptizing their own fingers , the rite of bap- tism was getting late in the world . Or when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India put ob- stacles in the way of schools , ( as is CHARACTER . 89.
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... seemed a war between intellect and affection ; a crack in nature , which split every church in Christen- dom into Papal and Protestant ; Calvinism into Old and New schools ; Quakerism into Old and New ; brought new divisions in politics ...
... seemed a war between intellect and affection ; a crack in nature , which split every church in Christen- dom into Papal and Protestant ; Calvinism into Old and New schools ; Quakerism into Old and New ; brought new divisions in politics ...
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... seemed to give as much beauty as he borrowed ; and whatever he has quoted will be remembered by any who heard him , with inseparable association with his voice and ge- nius . He had nothing in common with vulgarity and infirmity , but ...
... seemed to give as much beauty as he borrowed ; and whatever he has quoted will be remembered by any who heard him , with inseparable association with his voice and ge- nius . He had nothing in common with vulgarity and infirmity , but ...
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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.