The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 3David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 pagina's |
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Pagina 830
... seem almost impossible in retrospect without Car- lyle and his heroic attempt " Im Ganzen , Guten , Wahren resolut zu leben . » For the only real use of steam engines and all the whole machinery which manifests thought in achievement is ...
... seem almost impossible in retrospect without Car- lyle and his heroic attempt " Im Ganzen , Guten , Wahren resolut zu leben . » For the only real use of steam engines and all the whole machinery which manifests thought in achievement is ...
Pagina 831
... listening , we could hear them " mingle with the ever - pealing tones of old Eternity . " such moments the secrets of Life lie opener to us ; mysterious things flit over the soul ; Life itself seems holier THOMAS CARLYLE 831.
... listening , we could hear them " mingle with the ever - pealing tones of old Eternity . " such moments the secrets of Life lie opener to us ; mysterious things flit over the soul ; Life itself seems holier THOMAS CARLYLE 831.
Pagina 832
... seems holier , wonderful , and fearful . How much more when our sunset was of a living sun ; and its bright countenance and shining return to us , not on the morrow , but " no more again , at all , forever ! " In such a scene , silence ...
... seems holier , wonderful , and fearful . How much more when our sunset was of a living sun ; and its bright countenance and shining return to us , not on the morrow , but " no more again , at all , forever ! " In such a scene , silence ...
Pagina 836
... seem strange to some ; nevertheless , they are not empty exaggerations , but expressions , in their way , of a belief , which is not now of yesterday ; perhaps when Goethe has been read and meditated for another generation , they will ...
... seem strange to some ; nevertheless , they are not empty exaggerations , but expressions , in their way , of a belief , which is not now of yesterday ; perhaps when Goethe has been read and meditated for another generation , they will ...
Pagina 840
... seem , strives , like a kind mother , to hide from us even this , that she is a mystery : she will have us rest on her beautiful and awful bosom as if it were our secure home ; on the bottomless , boundless Deep , whereon all human ...
... seem , strives , like a kind mother , to hide from us even this , that she is a mystery : she will have us rest on her beautiful and awful bosom as if it were our secure home ; on the bottomless , boundless Deep , whereon all human ...
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Pagina 1096 - Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more. If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wings Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover. But the spite on 't is, no praise Is due at all to me: Love with me had made no stays.
Pagina 1033 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Pagina 1138 - States, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
Pagina 1037 - D'avenant K* Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed, and Those which he design'd for the Press: Now Published Out of the Authors Originall Copies. London: Printed by TN for Henry Herringman, at the Sign of the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange. 1673.
Pagina 1064 - Oh ! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away, Who would not scorn what housewife's cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly thing of use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail beauty must decay...
Pagina 1033 - Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots : your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, — two dishes, but to one table : that's the end.
Pagina 1024 - Without doubt, no man with more wickedness ever attempted anything, or brought to pass what he desired more wickedly, more in the face and contempt of religion, and moral honesty; yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs, without the assistance of a great spirit, an admirable circumspection, and sagacity, and a most magnanimous resolution.
Pagina 1163 - ... of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me...
Pagina 1033 - A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.] KING. What dost thou mean by this? HAM. Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. KING. Where is Polonius? HAM. In heaven; send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i
Pagina 1056 - I believe that the experiences of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition — certain emotions responding to right and wrong conduct, which have no apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility.