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Strana 37
... intellect have been born on their soil , and they have made or applied the principal inventions . They have sound bodies , and supreme endurance in war and in labour . The spawning force of the race has sufficed to the colonisation of ...
... intellect have been born on their soil , and they have made or applied the principal inventions . They have sound bodies , and supreme endurance in war and in labour . The spawning force of the race has sufficed to the colonisation of ...
Strana 41
... intellect and dead conservatism ; world- wide enterprise , and devoted use and wont ; aggressive freedom and hospitable law , with bitter class - legisla- tion ; a people scattered by their wars and affairs over the face of the whole ...
... intellect and dead conservatism ; world- wide enterprise , and devoted use and wont ; aggressive freedom and hospitable law , with bitter class - legisla- tion ; a people scattered by their wars and affairs over the face of the whole ...
Strana 159
... intellect and personal force should make the law ; that industry and administrative talent should administer ; that work should wear the crown . know that not this , but something else , is pretended . The fiction with which the noble ...
... intellect and personal force should make the law ; that industry and administrative talent should administer ; that work should wear the crown . know that not this , but something else , is pretended . The fiction with which the noble ...
Strana 189
... intellect , makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton . When it reaches the pure element , it treads the clouds as securely as the ada- mant . Even in its elevations materialistic , its poetry is common sense inspired ; or iron ...
... intellect , makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton . When it reaches the pure element , it treads the clouds as securely as the ada- mant . Even in its elevations materialistic , its poetry is common sense inspired ; or iron ...
Strana 196
... intellect of famed races became effete . So it fared with English genius . These heights were followed by a meanness , and a descent of the mind into lower levels ; the loss of wings ; no high speculation . Locke , to whom the meaning ...
... intellect of famed races became effete . So it fared with English genius . These heights were followed by a meanness , and a descent of the mind into lower levels ; the loss of wings ; no high speculation . Locke , to whom the meaning ...
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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.