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Strana 20
... ship Washington Irving , and sailed from Boston on Tuesday , 5th October 1847 . On Friday at noon , we had only made one hundred and thirty - four miles . A nimble Indian would have swum as far ; but the captain affirmed that the ship ...
... ship Washington Irving , and sailed from Boston on Tuesday , 5th October 1847 . On Friday at noon , we had only made one hundred and thirty - four miles . A nimble Indian would have swum as far ; but the captain affirmed that the ship ...
Strana 21
... ship , — watch on watch , for advantage and for life . Since the ship was built , it seems , the master never slept but in his day - clothes whilst on board . " There are many advantages , " says Saadi , " in sea - voyaging , but ...
... ship , — watch on watch , for advantage and for life . Since the ship was built , it seems , the master never slept but in his day - clothes whilst on board . " There are many advantages , " says Saadi , " in sea - voyaging , but ...
Strana 23
... ship was in port , in the bread - closet , having no money , and wishing to go to England . The sailors have dressed him in Guernsey frock , with a knife in his belt , and he is climbing nimbly about after them , " likes the work first ...
... ship was in port , in the bread - closet , having no money , and wishing to go to England . The sailors have dressed him in Guernsey frock , with a knife in his belt , and he is climbing nimbly about after them , " likes the work first ...
Strana 25
... ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people , who for hundreds of years claimed the strict ... ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks . To - day , instead of bubbles , we measure by Kinsale , Cork ...
... ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people , who for hundreds of years claimed the strict ... ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks . To - day , instead of bubbles , we measure by Kinsale , Cork ...
Strana 32
... ship in its shape , and , if it were one , its best admiral could not have worked it , or anchored it in a more judicious or effective position . Sir John Herschel said , " London was the centre of the terrene globe . " The shopkeeping ...
... ship in its shape , and , if it were one , its best admiral could not have worked it , or anchored it in a more judicious or effective position . Sir John Herschel said , " London was the centre of the terrene globe . " The shopkeeping ...
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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.