Self-formation: Twelve Chapters for Young ThinkersJudd & Glass, 1858 - 255 páginas |
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... virtue , is , of all men , most likely to feel an interest in the grave affairs of his country , and to pronounce such a ver- dict , that the interests of his land may not be jeopardised and invaded . And if learning at all , if at all ...
... virtue , is , of all men , most likely to feel an interest in the grave affairs of his country , and to pronounce such a ver- dict , that the interests of his land may not be jeopardised and invaded . And if learning at all , if at all ...
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... Virtue , and Religion . But Youth is flying even while I am writing , and while you are reading : - " No eye perceives our growth or our decay ; To - day , we look as we did yesterday , And we shall look to - morrow as to - day . Yet ...
... Virtue , and Religion . But Youth is flying even while I am writing , and while you are reading : - " No eye perceives our growth or our decay ; To - day , we look as we did yesterday , And we shall look to - morrow as to - day . Yet ...
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... Virtue and of Civilization ? She offers to the generous youth her book , and her pen . What tales has she to recite of " " the marvellous boy , The sleepless soul that perished in his pride ; Of him who walked in glory and in joy ...
... Virtue and of Civilization ? She offers to the generous youth her book , and her pen . What tales has she to recite of " " the marvellous boy , The sleepless soul that perished in his pride ; Of him who walked in glory and in joy ...
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... virtues - for virtues he called them . Scornfully he always passed by the door of the poor sick widow ; savagely he grinned and thundered " No ! " when a piece of ground was requested of him for a mechanics ' institute ; in fact , the ...
... virtues - for virtues he called them . Scornfully he always passed by the door of the poor sick widow ; savagely he grinned and thundered " No ! " when a piece of ground was requested of him for a mechanics ' institute ; in fact , the ...
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... virtues , at once vividly - like life itself before the eye . In the high art of fiction nothing is set down that is not true and natural ; although perhaps the circumstances forming it never actu- ally cohered together as they do on ...
... virtues , at once vividly - like life itself before the eye . In the high art of fiction nothing is set down that is not true and natural ; although perhaps the circumstances forming it never actu- ally cohered together as they do on ...
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Página 197 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Página 192 - ... -by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away.
Página 232 - And fades the grass away. 3 Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone : Strange ! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long.
Página 160 - MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
Página 223 - Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity!
Página 81 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
Página 81 - You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him. It is hardly possible but the character should take a higher and better tone from the constant habit of associating in thought with a class of thinkers, to say the least of it, above the average of humanity.
Página 193 - ... gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Página 81 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its Ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Página 34 - I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side: By our own spirits are we deified: We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.