Representative Men: Seven LecturesJ. R. Osgood, 1876 - Počet stran: 231 |
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Strana 22
... mean- ing of our economies and politics . Give us the cipher , and , if persons and things are scores of a celestial music , let us read off the strains . We have been cheated of our reason ; yet there have been sane men , who enjoyed a ...
... mean- ing of our economies and politics . Give us the cipher , and , if persons and things are scores of a celestial music , let us read off the strains . We have been cheated of our reason ; yet there have been sane men , who enjoyed a ...
Strana 32
... means , culture , and limits ; and they yielded their place to other geniuses . Happy , if a few names remain so high , that we have not been able to read them nearer , and age and comparison have not robbed them of a ray . But , at ...
... means , culture , and limits ; and they yielded their place to other geniuses . Happy , if a few names remain so high , that we have not been able to read them nearer , and age and comparison have not robbed them of a ray . But , at ...
Strana 46
... means , or executive deity . Each student adheres , by temperament and by habit , to the first or to the second of these gods of the mind . By religion , he tends to unity ; by intellect , or by the senses , to the many . A too rapid ...
... means , or executive deity . Each student adheres , by temperament and by habit , to the first or to the second of these gods of the mind . By religion , he tends to unity ; by intellect , or by the senses , to the many . A too rapid ...
Strana 58
... means . Plato , lover of limits , loved the illimitable , saw the en- largement and nobility which come from truth itself and good itself , and attempted , as if on the part of the human intellect , once for all , to do it adequate ...
... means . Plato , lover of limits , loved the illimitable , saw the en- largement and nobility which come from truth itself and good itself , and attempted , as if on the part of the human intellect , once for all , to do it adequate ...
Strana 64
... means , he was able , in the direct way , and without envy , to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates , to which un- questionably his own debt was great ; and these derived again their principal advantage from the perfect art ...
... means , he was able , in the direct way , and without envy , to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates , to which un- questionably his own debt was great ; and these derived again their principal advantage from the perfect art ...
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Strana 74 - 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 139 - 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 204 - There are two levers for moving men — interest and fear. Love is a silly infatuation, depend upon it. Friendship is but a name. I love nobody. I do not even love my brothers: perhaps Joseph a little, from habit, and because he is my elder; and Duroc, I love him too; but why? — because his character pleases me: he is stern and resolute, and I believe the fellow never shed a tear.
Strana 37 - 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 128 - you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world." "I don't know how great men 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, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
Strana 139 - Montaigne talks with shrewdness, knows the world and books and himself, and uses the positive degree; never shrieks, or protests, or prays: no weakness, no convulsion, no superlative: does not wish to jump out of his skin, or play any antics, or annihilate space or time, but is stout and solid; tastes every moment of the day; likes pain because it makes him feel himself and realize things; as we pinch ourselves to know that we are awake. He keeps the plain; he rarely mounts or sinks; likes to feel...
Strana 135 - It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book, in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience.
Strana 80 - 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 moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence to toys, yet opens to every wretch that has reason the doors of the universe.
Strana 226 - 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.
Strana 43 - At last, comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric paint, or tattoo, or whooping; for he can define. He leaves with Asia the vast and superlative; he is the arrival of accuracy and intelligence. "He shall be as a god to me, who can rightly divide and define.