The Oxford Book of American EssaysBrander Matthews Oxford University Press, 1914 - 508 Seiten |
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... our race in general ! for in politics what can laws do without morals ? Our present race of ephemeræ will in a course of minutes become corrupt , like those of other and older bushes , and consequently 2 AMERICAN ESSAYS.
... our race in general ! for in politics what can laws do without morals ? Our present race of ephemeræ will in a course of minutes become corrupt , like those of other and older bushes , and consequently 2 AMERICAN ESSAYS.
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... laws . Yet these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interfer- ence of love and beauty . Men used to tell us that we love flattery , even though we are not deceived by it , because it shows that we are of importance enough to be ...
... laws . Yet these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interfer- ence of love and beauty . Men used to tell us that we love flattery , even though we are not deceived by it , because it shows that we are of importance enough to be ...
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... law of benefits is a difficult channel , which requires careful sailing , or rude boats . It is not the office of a man to receive gifts . How dare you give them ? We wish to be self - sustained . We do not quite forgive a giver . The ...
... law of benefits is a difficult channel , which requires careful sailing , or rude boats . It is not the office of a man to receive gifts . How dare you give them ? We wish to be self - sustained . We do not quite forgive a giver . The ...
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... law of the universe . Serving others is serving us . I must absolve me to myself . " Mind thy affair , " says the spirit ; " coxcomb , would you meddle with the skies , or with other people ? " Indirect service is left . Men have a ...
... law of the universe . Serving others is serving us . I must absolve me to myself . " Mind thy affair , " says the spirit ; " coxcomb , would you meddle with the skies , or with other people ? " Indirect service is left . Men have a ...
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... laws . The perception of these laws is a kind of meter of the mind . Little minds are little , through failure to see them . Even these feasts have their surfeit . Our delight in reason degenerates into idolatry of the herald ...
... laws . The perception of these laws is a kind of meter of the mind . Little minds are little , through failure to see them . Even these feasts have their surfeit . Our delight in reason degenerates into idolatry of the herald ...
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Seite 5 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Seite 110 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou...
Seite 141 - He touched the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay: And now the sun had stretched out all the hills, And now was dropt into the western bay. At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue : To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
Seite 158 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Seite 128 - I WISH to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil, — to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.
Seite 34 - I know that all beneath the moon decays. And what by mortals in this world is brought, In time's great period shall return to nought. l know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Seite 112 - ... however indefinite, of meaning. It is this latter, in especial, which imparts to a work of art so much of that richness (to borrow from colloquy a forcible term) which we are too fond of confounding with the ideal.
Seite 21 - AN old song made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman, who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate ; Like an old courtier of the queen's, And the queen's old courtier.
Seite 1 - We had been shown numberless skeletons of a kind of little fly, called an ephemera, whose successive generations, we were told, were bred and expired within the day. I happened to see a living company of them on a leaf, who appeared to be engaged in conversation.
Seite 203 - The poets of the kosmos advance through all interpositions and coverings and turmoils and stratagems to first principles. They are of use — they dissolve poverty from its need, and riches from its conceit. You large proprietor, they say, shall not realize or perceive more than any one else. The owner of the library is not he who holds a legal title to it, having bought and paid for it. Any one and every one is owner of the library...