Representative men. English traits. Conduct of lifeJ. R. Osgood and Company, 1875 |
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Strana 14
... 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 com- petitors . But in these new fields there is room : here are no self - esteems ...
... 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 com- petitors . But in these new fields there is room : here are no self - esteems ...
Strana 23
... Saxon nor Ro- man have availed to add any idea to his categories . No wife , no children had he , and the thinkers of all civilized nations are his posterity , and are tinged with his mind . How many great men Nature is incessantly ...
... Saxon nor Ro- man have availed to add any idea to his categories . No wife , no children had he , and the thinkers of all civilized nations are his posterity , and are tinged with his mind . How many great men Nature is incessantly ...
Strana 109
... Saxon race in him by the inspiration which feeds him , and on whose thoughts the foremost people of the world are now for some ages to be nourished , and minds to receive this and not another bias . popular player , nobody suspected he ...
... Saxon race in him by the inspiration which feeds him , and on whose thoughts the foremost people of the world are now for some ages to be nourished , and minds to receive this and not another bias . popular player , nobody suspected he ...
Strana 181
... Saxons are Protestants ; that Celts love unity of power , and Saxons the representative principle . Race is a controlling influence in the Jew , who , for two mil- lenniums , under every climate , has preserved the same charac- ter and ...
... Saxons are Protestants ; that Celts love unity of power , and Saxons the representative principle . Race is a controlling influence in the Jew , who , for two mil- lenniums , under every climate , has preserved the same charac- ter and ...
Strana 182
... Saxon and Tartar , should mix , when we see the rudiments of tiger and baboon in our human form , and know that the barriers of races are not so firm , but that some spray sprinkles us from the antediluvian seas . The low organizations ...
... Saxon and Tartar , should mix , when we see the rudiments of tiger and baboon in our human form , and know that the barriers of races are not so firm , but that some spray sprinkles us from the antediluvian seas . The low organizations ...
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Strana 161 - I found him noble and courteous, living in a cloud of pictures at his Villa Gherardesca, a fine house commanding a beautiful landscape. I had inferred from his books, or magnified from some anecdotes, an impression of Achillean wrath, — an untamable petulance. I do not know whether the imputation were just or not, but certainly on this May day his courtesy veiled that haughty mind, and he was the most patient and gentle of hosts.
Strana 460 - HE who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Strana 7 - He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Strana 268 - Chronicle, to those in the diaries of Sir Samuel Romilly, and of Haydon the painter. " Abroad with my wife," writes Pepys piously, " the first time that ever I rode in my own coach ; which do make my heart rejoice and praise God, and pray him to bless it to me, and continue it.
Strana 47 - 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 134 - Corvisart candidly agreed with me that all your filthy mixtures are good for nothing. Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.
Strana 128 - My power would fall, were I not to support it by new achievements. Conquest has made me what I am, and conquest must maintain me.
Strana 490 - Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
Strana 415 - Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect, is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love, is felt to be done for love.
Strana 430 - Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.