Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 114W. Blackwood & Sons, 1873 |
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Pagina 7
earthquakes more efficacious than their pills ? " " I reply as a famous English statesman , when in opposition , re- plied to a somewhat similar ques- tion , I don't prescribe till I'm called in . ' " " To judge by the seven millions ...
earthquakes more efficacious than their pills ? " " I reply as a famous English statesman , when in opposition , re- plied to a somewhat similar ques- tion , I don't prescribe till I'm called in . ' " " To judge by the seven millions ...
Pagina 25
... English actually marry less , proportionately , than the pru- dent , calculating French , who look before they leap . This is an un- expected fact to start with , but , if it be a fact , it indicates , with tolerable distinctness , that ...
... English actually marry less , proportionately , than the pru- dent , calculating French , who look before they leap . This is an un- expected fact to start with , but , if it be a fact , it indicates , with tolerable distinctness , that ...
Pagina 30
... English people , which , though in total ig- norance of the facts , grows up , lives , and dies in the contrary conviction -but the assertion is strictly , liter- ally true . The marriage - tie is vig- orously felt in France : husbands ...
... English people , which , though in total ig- norance of the facts , grows up , lives , and dies in the contrary conviction -but the assertion is strictly , liter- ally true . The marriage - tie is vig- orously felt in France : husbands ...
Pagina 36
opinions of the house , and transla- tions of a few English novels , con- stitute the habitual limit of female study . With all their inventive- ness , the French have not discovered that reading is not only the most natural , but also ...
opinions of the house , and transla- tions of a few English novels , con- stitute the habitual limit of female study . With all their inventive- ness , the French have not discovered that reading is not only the most natural , but also ...
Pagina 50
... English ship of war , pursued by his foes to the water's edge . O'Donnell , who had figured in more than one revolt- who owed his marshal's truncheon and his place of Prime Minister to the insurrection of 1854 , and by the same means ...
... English ship of war , pursued by his foes to the water's edge . O'Donnell , who had figured in more than one revolt- who owed his marshal's truncheon and his place of Prime Minister to the insurrection of 1854 , and by the same means ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 603 - Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments
Pagina 603 - How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Pagina 603 - ... we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world,
Pagina 272 - That is found wandering and not having any home or settled place of abode, or proper guardianship, or visible means of subsistence...
Pagina 86 - I have (what perhaps you little suspect me of) in my nature an infinite share of ambition. But with it I have at the same time, as you well. know, an equal share of diffidence. To this combination of opposite qualities it has been owing that, till lately, I stole through life without undertaking any thing, yet always wishing to distinguish myself.
Pagina 603 - The theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter or some abstract theory we have not identified with ourselves or what is only conventional, has no real claim upon us.
Pagina 346 - The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties or the moral coercion of public opinion.
Pagina 260 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Pagina 702 - Phidias tarnen dis quam hominibus efficiendis melior artifex creditur, in ebore vero longe citra aemulum, vel si nihil nisi Minervam Athenis aut Olympium in Elide lovem fecisset, cuius pulchritudo adiecisse aliquid etiam receptae religioni videtur: adeo maiestas operis deum aequavit.
Pagina 603 - What we have to do is to be for ever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions, never acquiescing in a facile orthodoxy of Comte, or of Hegel, or of our own. Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. " Philosophy is the microscope of thought.