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Strana 16
... experience of the pretending races . We are entitled also to higher advantages . Something is wanting to science until it has been humanized . The table of logarithms is one thing , and its vital play in botany , music , optics and ...
... experience of the pretending races . We are entitled also to higher advantages . Something is wanting to science until it has been humanized . The table of logarithms is one thing , and its vital play in botany , music , optics and ...
Strana 20
... experience is usually cramped and obstructed , runs also much higher , and is the se- cret of the reader's joy in literary genius . Nothing is kept back . There is fire enough to fuse the mountain of ore . Shakspeare's principal merit ...
... experience is usually cramped and obstructed , runs also much higher , and is the se- cret of the reader's joy in literary genius . Nothing is kept back . There is fire enough to fuse the mountain of ore . Shakspeare's principal merit ...
Strana 35
... experience , and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin . It seems a mechan- ical advantage , and great benefit it is to each speaker , as he can now paint out his thought to himself . We pass very fast , in ...
... experience , and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin . It seems a mechan- ical advantage , and great benefit it is to each speaker , as he can now paint out his thought to himself . We pass very fast , in ...
Strana 37
... experience is more familiar . Once you saw phoenixes : they are gone ; the world is not there- fore disenchanted . The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery ; but the sense of the pictures is sacred ...
... experience is more familiar . Once you saw phoenixes : they are gone ; the world is not there- fore disenchanted . The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery ; but the sense of the pictures is sacred ...
Strana 55
Ralph Waldo Emerson. lieve in admirable souls is because they are not in our experience . In actual life , they are so rare as to be incredible ; but primarily there is not only no presumption against them , but the strongest pre ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. lieve in admirable souls is because they are not in our experience . In actual life , they are so rare as to be incredible ; but primarily there is not only no presumption against them , but the strongest pre ...
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Strana 12 - I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty ; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light and in large relations, whilst they must make painful corrections and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
Strana 12 - He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Strana 86 - 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 49 - Philosophy is the account which the human mind gives to itself of the constitution of the world.
Strana 226 - ... for creation. We are always in peril, always in a bad plight, just on the edge of destruction and only to be saved by invention and courage. This vigor was guarded and tempered by the coldest prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage, but the result of calculation. His idea of the best defence consists in being still the attacking party. " My ambition," he says, " was great, but was...
Strana 189 - It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it ; and of him who can adequately place it.
Strana 197 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Strana 160 - The Essays, therefore, are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into his head ; treating everything without ceremony, yet with masculine sense. There have been men with deeper insight ; but, one would say, never a man with such abundance of thoughts : he is never dull, never insincere, and has the genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for.
Strana 156 - Essays. I heard with pleasure that one of the newly-discovered autographs of William Shakespeare was in a copy of Florio's translation of Montaigne. It is the only book which we certainly know to have been in the poet's library.
Strana 152 - Let us have a robust, manly life ; let us know what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid and seasonable and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with real men and women, and not with skipping ghosts.