Essays, orations and lecturesW. Tegg & Company, 1848 - 385 pages |
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... live all history in his own person . He must sit at home with might and main , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geo- graphy and all the government of the world ; he must ...
... live all history in his own person . He must sit at home with might and main , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geo- graphy and all the government of the world ; he must ...
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... live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience , it will lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere or other , some time or ...
... live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience , it will lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere or other , some time or ...
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... lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all like a creative soul , with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and ...
... lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all like a creative soul , with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and ...
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... live holily , their own piety explains every fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zoroaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate themselves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . 16 ESSAYS .
... live holily , their own piety explains every fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zoroaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate themselves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . 16 ESSAYS .
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... live apart from him , and independent of him . The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of scepticism . Not less true to all time are all the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every man ...
... live apart from him , and independent of him . The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of scepticism . Not less true to all time are all the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every man ...
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Page 32 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 26 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.
Page 27 - Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
Page 33 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Page 156 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Page 69 - They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Page 1 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Page 28 - ... what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul...
Page 60 - The mind now thinks, now acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended and books are a weariness — he has always the resource to live.
Page 30 - What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.