Representative Men1st World Publishing, 2004 - Počet stran: 216 Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - IT IS NATURAL to believe in great men. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal it would not surprise us. All mythology opens with demigods, and the circumstance is high and poetic; that is, their genius is paramount. In the legends of the Gautama, the first men ate the earth and found it deliciously sweet. Nature seems to exist for the excellent. The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society; and, actually or ideally, we manage to live with superiors. We call our children and our lands by their names. Their names are wrought into the verbs of language, their works and effigies are in our houses, and every circumstance of the day recalls an anecdote of them. |
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... Italian– “how Roman and how Greek!” As they say that Helen of Argos had that universal beauty that every body felt related to her, so Plato seems to a reader in New England an American genius. His broad humanity transcends all sectional ...
... Italian– “how Roman and how Greek!” As they say that Helen of Argos had that universal beauty that every body felt related to her, so Plato seems to a reader in New England an American genius. His broad humanity transcends all sectional ...
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... Italy, to gain what Pythagoras had for him; then into Egypt, and perhaps still farther East, to import the other element, which Europe wanted, into the European mind. This breadth entitles him to stand as the representative of ...
... Italy, to gain what Pythagoras had for him; then into Egypt, and perhaps still farther East, to import the other element, which Europe wanted, into the European mind. This breadth entitles him to stand as the representative of ...
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... Italy; then into Egypt, where he stayed a long time; some say three, – some say thirteen years. It is said he went farther, into Babylonia: this is uncertain. Returning to Athens, he gave lessons in the Academy to those whom his fame ...
... Italy; then into Egypt, where he stayed a long time; some say three, – some say thirteen years. It is said he went farther, into Babylonia: this is uncertain. Returning to Athens, he gave lessons in the Academy to those whom his fame ...
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U této knihy jste dosáhli svého limitního počtu zobrazení..
U této knihy jste dosáhli svého limitního počtu zobrazení..
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NEW READINGS | 61 |
4 SWEDENBORG or The Mystic | 69 |
5 MONTAIGNE or The Skeptic | 109 |
6 SHAKESPEARE or The Poet | 137 |
7 NAPOLEON or The Man of the World | 160 |
8 GOETHE or The Writer | 186 |
NOTES TO THE TEXT | 208 |
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