Letters and Social AimsJ. R. Osgood and Company, 1875 - 285 páginas |
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... present question , forbearing all pedan- tries , and the very name of argument ; for in good con- versation parties don't speak to the words , but to the meanings of each other . Manners first , then conversation . Later , we see that ...
... present question , forbearing all pedan- tries , and the very name of argument ; for in good con- versation parties don't speak to the words , but to the meanings of each other . Manners first , then conversation . Later , we see that ...
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... present business , we know all about it , and are tired of being pushed into patriotism by people who stay at home . But he , taking no counsel of past things , but only of the inspiration of his to - day's feeling , surprises them with ...
... present business , we know all about it , and are tired of being pushed into patriotism by people who stay at home . But he , taking no counsel of past things , but only of the inspiration of his to - day's feeling , surprises them with ...
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... present age . And in your struggles with the world , should a crisis ever occur , when even friendship may deem it prudent to desert you , when even your country may seem ready to abandon herself and you , when priest and Levite shall ...
... present age . And in your struggles with the world , should a crisis ever occur , when even friendship may deem it prudent to desert you , when even your country may seem ready to abandon herself and you , when priest and Levite shall ...
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... present : it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles . But the moment there is the purpose of dis- play , the fraud is exposed . In fact , it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others , as it ...
... present : it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles . But the moment there is the purpose of dis- play , the fraud is exposed . In fact , it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others , as it ...
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... Present is Genius , which makes the Past forgotten . Genius believes its faintest presenti- ment against the testimony of all history ; for it knows that facts are not ultimates , but that a state of mind is the ancestor of everything ...
... Present is Genius , which makes the Past forgotten . Genius believes its faintest presenti- ment against the testimony of all history ; for it knows that facts are not ultimates , but that a state of mind is the ancestor of everything ...
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Página 42 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Página 80 - Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Página 48 - Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls...
Página 74 - I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that " the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Página 42 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Página 258 - His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Página 27 - A Spirit and a Vision are not, as the modern philosophy supposes, a cloudy vapour, or a nothing: they are organized and minutely articulated beyond all that the mortal and perishing nature can produce. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
Página 155 - Truth is always present: it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. But the moment there is the purpose of display, the fraud is exposed. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is to invent. Always some steep transition, some sudden alteration of temperature, or of point of view, betrays the foreign interpolation.
Página 152 - In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, and, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we say; but if I like the gay equipage so well as to go out of my road, I had better have gone afoot.
Página 134 - Into his hands, or hang, th' offender : But they maturely having weigh'd, They had no more but him o...