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Strana 13
... turning his eyes towards London with a scholar's appreciation . London is the heart of the world , he said , wonderful only from the mass of human beings . He liked the huge machine . Each keeps its own round . The baker's boy brings ...
... turning his eyes towards London with a scholar's appreciation . London is the heart of the world , he said , wonderful only from the mass of human beings . He liked the huge machine . Each keeps its own round . The baker's boy brings ...
Strana 24
... turns up , which you have long had a vacant niche for , and seize with the joy of a collector . But , under the best conditions , a voyage is one of the severest tests to try a man . A college examination is nothing to it . Sea - days ...
... turns up , which you have long had a vacant niche for , and seize with the joy of a collector . But , under the best conditions , a voyage is one of the severest tests to try a man . A college examination is nothing to it . Sea - days ...
Strana 47
... turn for homicide ; their chief end of man is to murder , or to be murdered ; oars , scythes , harpoons , crowbars , peatknives , and hay- forks , are tools valued by them all the more for their charming aptitude for assassinations . A ...
... turn for homicide ; their chief end of man is to murder , or to be murdered ; oars , scythes , harpoons , crowbars , peatknives , and hay- forks , are tools valued by them all the more for their charming aptitude for assassinations . A ...
Strana 55
... turns to sleep . Lord Collingwood , his comrade , was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic . Admiral Rodney's figure approached to delicacy and effeminacy , and he declared himself very sensible to fear , which he surmounted ...
... turns to sleep . Lord Collingwood , his comrade , was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic . Admiral Rodney's figure approached to delicacy and effeminacy , and he declared himself very sensible to fear , which he surmounted ...
Strana 57
... turns out the aristocracy into the country to shoot and fish . The more vigorous run out of the island to Europe , to America , to Asia , to Africa , and Australia , to hunt with fury by gun , by trap , by harpoon , by lasso , with dog ...
... turns out the aristocracy into the country to shoot and fish . The more vigorous run out of the island to Europe , to America , to Asia , to Africa , and Australia , to hunt with fury by gun , by trap , by harpoon , by lasso , with dog ...
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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.