Representative Men: Seven LecturesHenry Altemus, 1892 - Počet stran: 294 |
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... wish for a thousand heads , a thousand bodies , that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places . Is this fancy ? Well , in good faith , we are multiplied by our proxies . How easily we adopt their labors ! Every ship ...
... wish for a thousand heads , a thousand bodies , that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places . Is this fancy ? Well , in good faith , we are multiplied by our proxies . How easily we adopt their labors ! Every ship ...
Strana 27
... wish . I go to a convention of philanthropists . Do what I can , I cannot keep my eyes off the clock . But if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little of persons or parties , of Carolina or Cuba , but who ...
... wish . I go to a convention of philanthropists . Do what I can , I cannot keep my eyes off the clock . But if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little of persons or parties , of Carolina or Cuba , but who ...
Strana 28
... 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 . But in these new fields there is room : here are no self - esteems , no exclusions . I admire ...
... 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 . But in these new fields there is room : here are no self - esteems , no exclusions . I admire ...
Strana 32
... wishes one son a genius , though all the rest should be mediocre . But a new danger ap- pears in the excess of influence of the great man . His attractions warp us from our place . We have become underlings and intellectual suicides ...
... wishes one son a genius , though all the rest should be mediocre . But a new danger ap- pears in the excess of influence of the great man . His attractions warp us from our place . We have become underlings and intellectual suicides ...
Strana 34
... wishes every thing to remain itself ; and , whilst every individual strives to grow and exclude , and to exclude and grow , to the extremi- ties of the universe , and to impose the law of its being on every other creature , Nature ...
... wishes every thing to remain itself ; and , whilst every individual strives to grow and exclude , and to exclude and grow , to the extremi- ties of the universe , and to impose the law of its being on every other creature , Nature ...
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