Heart of Man, and Other PapersHarcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920 - 323 Seiten |
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... enter . Yet here I find it all about me in the places where the poets first unveiled it . Once before I had a sight of it , as all over Italy it glimpses at times from the hills and the campɛgna . Descending under the high peak of Capri ...
... enter . Yet here I find it all about me in the places where the poets first unveiled it . Once before I had a sight of it , as all over Italy it glimpses at times from the hills and the campɛgna . Descending under the high peak of Capri ...
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... enters into them . No idyl appeals so directly to modern feeling , I suspect , as does that of the two fishermen and the dream of the golden fish . Go down to the shore ; you will find the old men still at their toil , the same ...
... enters into them . No idyl appeals so directly to modern feeling , I suspect , as does that of the two fishermen and the dream of the golden fish . Go down to the shore ; you will find the old men still at their toil , the same ...
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... enter the stony - hearted town . A place more dreary , desolate to the eye , is seldom seen . There are only low , mean houses of gray stone , and the paved ways . If you can fancy a prison turned inside out like a glove , with all its ...
... enter the stony - hearted town . A place more dreary , desolate to the eye , is seldom seen . There are only low , mean houses of gray stone , and the paved ways . If you can fancy a prison turned inside out like a glove , with all its ...
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... enters intimately into the lives of all men , however humble and unlearned , if they live at all except in their bodies . What is here proposed is neither speculative , technical , nor abstruse ; it is practical in matter , universal in ...
... enters intimately into the lives of all men , however humble and unlearned , if they live at all except in their bodies . What is here proposed is neither speculative , technical , nor abstruse ; it is practical in matter , universal in ...
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... enters the external world , determining the course of events and being passively affected by them . Plot takes account of this interplay and sets forth its laws . It is , therefore , more deeply engaged with the environment , as type is ...
... enters the external world , determining the course of events and being passively affected by them . Plot takes account of this interplay and sets forth its laws . It is , therefore , more deeply engaged with the environment , as type is ...
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Seite 322 - baptismal night. I wish I might dip you in these spiritual waters. It is nothing that we are humble; the humblest life may be a life of sacrifice, and the poorer it is, generally, the greater is the sacrifice. Light is the same in the sun and in the candle. "How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a
Seite 238 - Adam Smith contributed more, by the publication of this single work, towards the happiness of men than has been effected by the united abilities of all the statesmen and legislators of whom history has preserved an authentic account.
Seite 124 - fearfully yet exactly described in the Apostle's words, 'having no hope and without God in the world,' — all this is a vision to dizzy and appall; and inflicts upon the mind the sense of a profound mystery which is absolutely beyond human solution.
Seite 322 - the aim of the foe. Death is not the worst of life. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. Above all, do not draw back because everything is not plain, and you may, perhaps, be mistaken; obscurity is always the air of the present hour; "at the evening time,
Seite 308 - remembered it because the words were almost identical with Lowell's. "I am impatient," he said at Birmingham, "of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can most easily be borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.
Seite 313 - is money against legislation. My friends, you and I shall be in our graves long before that battle is ended; and unless our children have more patience and courage than saved this country from slavery, republican institutions will go down before moneyed corporations.
Seite 4 - The intention of the author was to illustrate how poetry, politics, and religion are the flowering of the same human spirit, and have their feeding roots in a common soil, "deep in the general heart of men.
Seite 306 - he liked to mask his wisdom in a distinguished name, often said: "We are well aware that the privileges of the people, the rights of free
Seite 301 - Despotism looks down into the poor man's cradle, and knows it can crush resistance and curb ill-will. Democracy sees the ballot in that baby-hand;
Seite 124 - and inflicts upon the mind the sense of a profound mystery which is absolutely beyond human solution.