A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies: Original and Selected ...Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 - 371 pagina's |
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Pagina vi
... side . A book so supremely egotistical and subjective can do good only in one way . It may , like conversation with a friend , open up sources of sympathy and reflection ; ex- cite to argument , agreement , or disagreement ; and , like ...
... side . A book so supremely egotistical and subjective can do good only in one way . It may , like conversation with a friend , open up sources of sympathy and reflection ; ex- cite to argument , agreement , or disagreement ; and , like ...
Pagina 15
... side of every thing . " On the other hand , it must be conceded , that one who stands endowed with great power and with great responsibilities in the midst of a thousand duties and interests , can no longer take things in this simple ...
... side of every thing . " On the other hand , it must be conceded , that one who stands endowed with great power and with great responsibilities in the midst of a thousand duties and interests , can no longer take things in this simple ...
Pagina 21
... side to look for it , and ask " where is the East ? and whence the dayspring ? " For the East holds its wonted place , and the light is withheld only till its appointed time . God so strengthen me that I may think of pain and sin only ...
... side to look for it , and ask " where is the East ? and whence the dayspring ? " For the East holds its wonted place , and the light is withheld only till its appointed time . God so strengthen me that I may think of pain and sin only ...
Pagina 27
... side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side . This your mere worldly people do not seem to know , and therein make the sorriest and the vulgarest of all mistakes . " Pour être assez bon il faut l'être ...
... side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side . This your mere worldly people do not seem to know , and therein make the sorriest and the vulgarest of all mistakes . " Pour être assez bon il faut l'être ...
Pagina 34
... has built by the way side . We cannot get on without linking our present and our future with our past . All reaction is destructive - all progress conservative . When we have destroyed that which the past built up. 34 ETHICAL FRAGMENTS .
... has built by the way side . We cannot get on without linking our present and our future with our past . All reaction is destructive - all progress conservative . When we have destroyed that which the past built up. 34 ETHICAL FRAGMENTS .
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A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies, Original and Selected ... Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Volledige weergave - 1855 |
A Commonplace Book of Thoughts: Memories, and Fancies ... Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Volledige weergave - 1854 |
A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies: Original and Selected ... Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Volledige weergave - 1855 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 81 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Pagina 85 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed (miserable train!), Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence and their good receives...
Pagina 23 - A single life doth well with churchmen, for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool.
Pagina 342 - And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
Pagina 265 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Pagina 6 - Our Life is turned Out of her course, wherever Man is made An offering, or a sacrifice, a tool Or implement, a passive Thing employed As a brute mean, without acknowledgment Of common right or interest in the end; Used or abused, as selfishness may prompt.
Pagina 86 - Tis he whose law is reason, who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard...
Pagina 185 - For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; And when he happened to break off I...
Pagina 207 - The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may...
Pagina 226 - ... the proud knowledge of good and evil, with an intent in man to give law unto himself and to depend no more upon God's commandments, which was the form of the temptation.