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Strana 10
... Heaven ! this picture is not ten years old : ' - so delicate and skilful was that man's touch . " I was in his company for about an hour , but find it impossible to recall the largest part of his discourse , which was often like so many ...
... Heaven ! this picture is not ten years old : ' - so delicate and skilful was that man's touch . " I was in his company for about an hour , but find it impossible to recall the largest part of his discourse , which was often like so many ...
Strana 73
... heaven , came home , and redacted it in eight years more ; -a work whose value does not begin until thirty years have elapsed , and thence- forward a record to all ages of the highest import . The Admiralty sent out the Arctic ...
... heaven , came home , and redacted it in eight years more ; -a work whose value does not begin until thirty years have elapsed , and thence- forward a record to all ages of the highest import . The Admiralty sent out the Arctic ...
Strana 105
... heaven by themselves ? They are contradictorily described as sour , splen- etic , and stubborn , and as mild , sweet , and sensible . The truth is , they have great range and variety of character . Commerce sends abroad multitudes of ...
... heaven by themselves ? They are contradictorily described as sour , splen- etic , and stubborn , and as mild , sweet , and sensible . The truth is , they have great range and variety of character . Commerce sends abroad multitudes of ...
Strana 152
... heaven , fulfilling to their sense their fairy tales and poetry . This , just as far as the breeding of the nobleman really made him brave , handsome , accomplished , and great - hearted . On general grounds , whatever tends to form man ...
... heaven , fulfilling to their sense their fairy tales and poetry . This , just as far as the breeding of the nobleman really made him brave , handsome , accomplished , and great - hearted . On general grounds , whatever tends to form man ...
Strana 175
... heaven above and the earth beneath . It moves through a zodiac of feasts and fasts , names every day of the year , every town and market , and headland and monument , and has coupled itself with the almanac , that no court can be held ...
... heaven above and the earth beneath . It moves through a zodiac of feasts and fasts , names every day of the year , every town and market , and headland and monument , and has coupled itself with the almanac , that no court can be held ...
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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.