The Gentle Life: Essays in Aid of the Formation of CharacterSampson, Low, son & Marston, 1866 - 303 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... look to his endowments , and measure his achievements ; when we consider that he binds the sea and drives it back from its prey , that he rides upon the clouds and measures the heavens ; when we remember that the lightning is his ...
... look to his endowments , and measure his achievements ; when we consider that he binds the sea and drives it back from its prey , that he rides upon the clouds and measures the heavens ; when we remember that the lightning is his ...
Pagina 4
... looks on man's body , and observes the wonderful way in which it is made , will never be an atheist . " Carlyle tells us that " Man is the very miracle of Nature ; " and so he is . The proudest thing ever said of man is in that Book of ...
... looks on man's body , and observes the wonderful way in which it is made , will never be an atheist . " Carlyle tells us that " Man is the very miracle of Nature ; " and so he is . The proudest thing ever said of man is in that Book of ...
Pagina 5
... look at and consider . What is man , then ? Philosophers and wits ( and wits are often the true philosophers of Nature ) have attempted several definitions of him . Plato said that he was a two - legged animal without feathers . Others ...
... look at and consider . What is man , then ? Philosophers and wits ( and wits are often the true philosophers of Nature ) have attempted several definitions of him . Plato said that he was a two - legged animal without feathers . Others ...
Pagina 9
... look for something far greater than selfish glory ; he began to make his god , and demigod , and hero , not from him who slew , but from him who benefited his kind . Great philosophers defied alike the ON A CERTAIN NOBLE ANIMAL . 9.
... look for something far greater than selfish glory ; he began to make his god , and demigod , and hero , not from him who slew , but from him who benefited his kind . Great philosophers defied alike the ON A CERTAIN NOBLE ANIMAL . 9.
Pagina 15
... look at woman as she is painted by great authors , premising that , when we can , we will , out of fairness , prefer the words of women authors to those of men . The beauty and goodness of woman - and let us THE WEAKER VESSEL . 15.
... look at woman as she is painted by great authors , premising that , when we can , we will , out of fairness , prefer the words of women authors to those of men . The beauty and goodness of woman - and let us THE WEAKER VESSEL . 15.
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Pagina 71 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Pagina 248 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between. But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Pagina 4 - To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history, the many races of man, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts ; and then their ways, habits, governments, forms of worship ; their enterprises, their aimless courses, their random achievements and acquirements, the impotent conclusion of long-standing facts, the tokens so faint and broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution...
Pagina 11 - Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...
Pagina 261 - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Pagina 188 - In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not. Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges; hath his seat In reason, and is judicious ; is the scale By which to heavenly love thou may'st ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure ; for which cause, Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.
Pagina 131 - Rawdon Crawley, springing out, seized him by the neckcloth, until Steyne, almost strangled, writhed, and bent under his arm. "You lie, you dog!" said Rawdon. "You lie, you coward and villain ! " And he struck the peer twice over the face with his open hand, and flung him bleeding to the ground. It was all done before Rebecca could interpose. She stood there trembling before him. She admired her husband, strong, brave, and victorious. " Come here," he said. She came up at once. "Take off those things.
Pagina 159 - Tell, manhood shakes off pity, Tell, virtue least preferreth. And if they do reply, Spare not to give the lie. So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing — Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing — Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill.
Pagina 110 - It is just that this youngster should die away: a sad thought for me, if I had not some hope that while it is dwindling I may be plotting and fitting myself for verses fit to live.