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Strana 41
... become complex . We are piqued with pure descent , but nature loves inoculation . A child blends in his face the faces of both parents , and some feature from every ancestor whose face hangs on the wall . The best nations are those most ...
... become complex . We are piqued with pure descent , but nature loves inoculation . A child blends in his face the faces of both parents , and some feature from every ancestor whose face hangs on the wall . The best nations are those most ...
Strana 59
... become their second selves . " William the Conqueror being , " says Camden , " better affected to beasts than to men , imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game . " The Saxon Chronicle says , " he ...
... become their second selves . " William the Conqueror being , " says Camden , " better affected to beasts than to men , imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game . " The Saxon Chronicle says , " he ...
Strana 77
... become milder and drier by the enormous consumption of coal , is so far reached by this new action , that fogs and storms are said to disappear . In due course , all England will be drained , and rise a second time out of the waters ...
... become milder and drier by the enormous consumption of coal , is so far reached by this new action , that fogs and storms are said to disappear . In due course , all England will be drained , and rise a second time out of the waters ...
Strana 81
... becomes idiomatic ; the people in the street best understand the best words . And their language seems drawn from the Bible , the common law , and the works of Shakspeare , Bacon , Milton , Pope , Young , Cowper , Burns , and Scott ...
... becomes idiomatic ; the people in the street best understand the best words . And their language seems drawn from the Bible , the common law , and the works of Shakspeare , Bacon , Milton , Pope , Young , Cowper , Burns , and Scott ...
Strana 110
... becomes him to express all the more that it differs from yours . They are meditating opposition . This gravity is inseparable from minds of great resources . There is an English hero superior to the French , the German , the Italian ...
... becomes him to express all the more that it differs from yours . They are meditating opposition . This gravity is inseparable from minds of great resources . There is an English hero superior to the French , the German , the Italian ...
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American appears Bacon battle of Austerlitz beauty better brain British Celt Chartist church courage Crown 8vo dæmons delight Duke earth England English English nature Englishman Europe everything existence eyes F. W. H. MYERS fact French friends genius give Goethe heart heaven Heimskringla honour human hundred ideas Inigo Jones intellect island king knew labour land learned live London look Lord Lord Eldon Lord Elgin manners means ment merit mind modern Montaigne moral Napoleon nation nature never noble opinion persons philosophy plant Plato poet poetic poetry political race religion rich Saxon scholars secret sense sentiment Shakspeare ship Sir Philip Sidney society Socrates soul spirit Stonehenge Swedenborg talent taste things thought thousand tion trade traits truth universe virtue wealth whilst wise write
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Strana 288 - At last comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric paint, or tattoo, or whooping; for he can define. He leaves with Asia the vast and superlative ; he is the arrival of accuracy and intelligence. " He shall be as a god to me, who can rightly divide and define.
Strana 319 - The loyalty well held to fools does make Our faith mere folly : — yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Strana 193 - That it be a receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy or sciences, but are more common and of a higher stage.
Strana 380 - The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book. Cut these words, and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.
Strana 449 - As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick ; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.
Strana 357 - To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits! But the Divine effort is never relaxed; the carrion in the sun will convert itself to grass and flowers, and man, though in brothels, or jails, or on gibbets, is on his way to all that is good and true.
Strana 432 - In one of his conversations with Las Casas, he remarked, "As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-themorning kind : I mean unprepared courage ; that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgment and decision...
Strana 390 - The doubts they profess to entertain are rather a civility or accommodation to the common discourse of their company. They may well give themselves leave to speculate, for they are secure of a return. Once admitted to the heaven of thought, they see no relapse into...
Strana 281 - Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought.
Strana 258 - He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.