Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 7

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Chapman & Hall, limited, 1888

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Pagina 185 - I conceive that books are like men's souls ; divided into sheep and goats. Some few are going up, and carrying us up, heavenward ; calculated, I mean, to be of priceless advantage in teaching, — in forwarding the teaching of all generations. Others, a frightful multitude, are going down, down ; doing ever the more and the wider and the wilder mischief.
Pagina 88 - Hall friends; this, that he shall be permitted, encouraged, and if need be, compelled to do what work the Maker of him has intended by the making of him for this world...
Pagina 85 - ... as much pumpkin as will suffice, he is likely to be a little stiff to raise into hard work! Supply and demand, which, science says, should be brought to bear on him, have an uphill task of it with such a man. Strong sun supplies itself gratis; rich soil in those unpeopled or half-peopled regions almost gratis; these are his "supply;" and half an hour a day, directed upon these, will produce pumpkin, which is his "demand.
Pagina 178 - I believe you will find in all histories that that has been at the head and foundation of them all, and that no nation that did not contemplate this wonderful universe with an awe-stricken and reverential feeling that there was a great unknown, omnipotent, and all-wise, and all-virtuous Being, superintending all men in it, and all interests in it — no nation ever came to very much, nor did any man either, who forgot that.
Pagina 50 - Take this bridonazo" (a very favourite word of the Dictator's, and which, being interpreted, means "most impertinent scoundrel") — ' ' take this bribonazo to the gibbet over the way ; walk him under it half-a-dozen times : — and now, " said he, turning to the trembling shoemaker, ' ' bring me such another pair of belts, and instead of walking under the gallows, we shall try how you can swing upon it.
Pagina 193 - ... all but obliterate it in the hearts of most; yet in every pure soul, in every Poet and Wise Man, it finds a new Missionary, a new Martyr, till the great volume of Universal History is finally closed, and man's destinies are fulfilled in this earth. ' It is a height to which the human species were fated and enabled to attain ; and from which, having once attained it, they can never retrograde.
Pagina 7 - ... unimaginable Dreams. Had he not left much behind him in the Pampas, — mother, mistress, what not ; and was like to find somewhat, if he ever got across to Chile living ? What an entity, one of those night-leaguers of San Martin ; all steadily snoring there, in the heart of the Andes, under the eternal stars...
Pagina 105 - Indies, not indolent two-legged cattle, however " happy" over their abundant pumpkins ! Both these things, we may be assured, the immortal gods have decided upon, passed their eternal Act of Parliament for: and both of them, though all terrestrial Parliaments and entities oppose it to the death, shall be done. Quashee, if he will not help in...
Pagina 191 - It is one of his last books; written when he was an old man above seventy years of age : I think, one of the most beautiful he ever wrote ; full of meek wisdom, of intellect and piety ; which is found to be strangely illuminative, and very touching, by those who have eyes to discern and hearts to feel it. This about education is one of the pieces in Wilhelm Meister's Travels; or rather, in a titful way, it forms the whole gist of the book.
Pagina 193 - Reverence!" Honour done to those •who are greater and better than ourselves ; honour distinct from fear. Ehrfurcht; the soul of all religion that has ever been among men, or ever will be.

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