Lectures and Biographical SketchesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 463 páginas |
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... speaking to one . In our traditions , fairies , angels and saints show the like favoritism ; so do the agents and the means of magic , as sorcerers and amulets . This faith in a doting power , so easily sliding into the current belief ...
... speaking to one . In our traditions , fairies , angels and saints show the like favoritism ; so do the agents and the means of magic , as sorcerers and amulets . This faith in a doting power , so easily sliding into the current belief ...
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... speak when the people listen , or to act with grace or with understanding to great ends , yet is one who , in actions of a low or common pitch , relies on his instincts , and simply does not act where DEMONOLOGY . 23.
... speak when the people listen , or to act with grace or with understanding to great ends , yet is one who , in actions of a low or common pitch , relies on his instincts , and simply does not act where DEMONOLOGY . 23.
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... speak , the churl will take him up by disputing his first words , so he cannot come at his scope . The wise man takes all for granted until he sees the parallelism of that which puzzled him with his own view . I will not protract this ...
... speak , the churl will take him up by disputing his first words , so he cannot come at his scope . The wise man takes all for granted until he sees the parallelism of that which puzzled him with his own view . I will not protract this ...
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... speak and act for mankind . ' Meantime shame to the fop of learn- ing and philosophy who suffers a vulgarity of speech and habit to blind him to the grosser vulgarity of piti- less selfishness , and to hide from him the current of ...
... speak and act for mankind . ' Meantime shame to the fop of learn- ing and philosophy who suffers a vulgarity of speech and habit to blind him to the grosser vulgarity of piti- less selfishness , and to hide from him the current of ...
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... speak of it or to range our- selves by its side . Nay , we presume strength of him or them who deny it . Cities go against it ; the college goes against it , the courts snatch at any precedent , at any vicious form of law to rule it out ...
... speak of it or to range our- selves by its side . Nay , we presume strength of him or them who deny it . Cities go against it ; the college goes against it , the courts snatch at any precedent , at any vicious form of law to rule it out ...
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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.