Representative Men: Seven LecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - Počet stran: 276 |
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... manners of Loo are heard of , the stupid become in- telligent , and the wavering , determined . " - This is the moral of biography ; yet it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions , whose names may not last ...
... manners of Loo are heard of , the stupid become in- telligent , and the wavering , determined . " - This is the moral of biography ; yet it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions , whose names may not last ...
Strana 20
... manners . There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can , and , by heroic encouragements , hold him to his task . What has friendship so sig- nal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us ...
... manners . There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can , and , by heroic encouragements , hold him to his task . What has friendship so sig- nal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us ...
Strana 27
... manners . Nobody is glad in the gladness of another , and our system is one of war , of an injurious superiority . Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first . ( It is our system ; and a man comes to measure his ...
... manners . Nobody is glad in the gladness of another , and our system is one of war , of an injurious superiority . Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first . ( It is our system ; and a man comes to measure his ...
Strana 29
... manners easily become great . We are all wise in capacity , though so few in energy . There needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise , so rapid is the contagion . Great men are thus a collyrium to clear our eyes from egotism ...
... manners easily become great . We are all wise in capacity , though so few in energy . There needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise , so rapid is the contagion . Great men are thus a collyrium to clear our eyes from egotism ...
Strana 47
... manners are full of desperation ; their speech is full of oaths . As soon as , with cul- ture , things have cleared up a little , and they see them no longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed , they desist from that weak ...
... manners are full of desperation ; their speech is full of oaths . As soon as , with cul- ture , things have cleared up a little , and they see them no longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed , they desist from that weak ...
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