Representative Men: Seven LecturesHenry Altemus, 1894 - Počet stran: 294 |
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... questions which I have not skill to put . One man answers some questions which none of his contemporaries put , and is iso- lated . The past and passing religions and philoso- phies answer some other question . Certain men affect us as ...
... questions which I have not skill to put . One man answers some questions which none of his contemporaries put , and is iso- lated . The past and passing religions and philoso- phies answer some other question . Certain men affect us as ...
Strana 45
... question concerning his reputed works , what are genuine , what spurious . It is singular that wherever we find a man higher , by a whole head , than any of his contemporaries , it is sure to come into doubt , what are his real works ...
... question concerning his reputed works , what are genuine , what spurious . It is singular that wherever we find a man higher , by a whole head , than any of his contemporaries , it is sure to come into doubt , what are his real works ...
Strana 81
... question from him . These things we are forced to say , if we must consider the effort of Plato , or of any philosopher , to dispose of Nature , —which will not be disposed of . No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success ...
... question from him . These things we are forced to say , if we must consider the effort of Plato , or of any philosopher , to dispose of Nature , —which will not be disposed of . No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success ...
Strana 98
... questions of Whence ? What ? and Whither ? and the solution of these must be in a life , and not in a book . A drama or poem is a proximate or oblique reply ; but Moses , Menu , Jesus , work directly on this problem . The atmosphere of ...
... questions of Whence ? What ? and Whither ? and the solution of these must be in a life , and not in a book . A drama or poem is a proximate or oblique reply ; but Moses , Menu , Jesus , work directly on this problem . The atmosphere of ...
Strana 161
... question on which any thing more than an approximate solution can be had ? Is not marriage an open question , when it is alleged , from the beginning of the world , that such as are in the institution wish to get out , and such as are ...
... question on which any thing more than an approximate solution can be had ? Is not marriage an open question , when it is alleged , from the beginning of the world , that such as are in the institution wish to get out , and such as are ...
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Strana 12 - I cannot tell what I would know ; but I have observed there are persons who, in their character and actions, answer questions which I have not skill to put.
Strana 172 - 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 157 - Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. ' Nephew,' said Sir Godfrey, 'you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men in the world.' — ' I don't know how great you may be,' said the Guinea man, ' but I don't like your looks : I have often bought a man much better than both of you together, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
Strana 43 - Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought. Great havoc makes he among our originalities. We have reached the mountain from which all these drift boulders were detached.
Strana 93 - 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 213 - What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled ? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of?
Strana 266 - Not a foot steps into! the snow or along the ground but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows and in his own manners and face.
Strana 28 - ... and if I have so much more, every other must have so much less. I seem to have no good without breach of good 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 greatness 'by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.
Strana 17 - He is not only representative, but participant. Like can only be known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them ; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of that thing. Animated chlorine knows of chlorine, and incarnate zinc, of zinc. Their quality makes his career ; and he can variously publish their virtues, because they compose him. Man, made of the dust of the world, does not forget his origin ; and all that is yet inanimate will one day speak and reason.
Strana 285 - What does the man mean? Whence, whence all these thoughts ? Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book ; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise ; holding things because they are things. If he cannot rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist, and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the burden on his mind, — the burden of truth to be declared,...