Heart of Man, and Other PapersHarcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920 - 323 Seiten |
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... interest . As I turned the pages I was reminded once more how impossible it is to know the past . The past survives in human institu- tions , in the temperament of races , and in the creations of ideal art ; but only in the last is it ...
... interest . As I turned the pages I was reminded once more how impossible it is to know the past . The past survives in human institu- tions , in the temperament of races , and in the creations of ideal art ; but only in the last is it ...
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... interest - Zaccaria , who was deprived , evidently the ablest in mind and policy of all the succession , once a great figure in the disputes of East and West ; and Procopio , whom the Saracens slew , for the Crescent now followed the ...
... interest - Zaccaria , who was deprived , evidently the ablest in mind and policy of all the succession , once a great figure in the disputes of East and West ; and Procopio , whom the Saracens slew , for the Crescent now followed the ...
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... interest to men ; and man as a spirit , a creature but made in the likeness of something divine . The lapse of æons touches us as little as the reach of space ; even the building of our planet , and man's infancy , have the faint and ...
... interest to men ; and man as a spirit , a creature but made in the likeness of something divine . The lapse of æons touches us as little as the reach of space ; even the building of our planet , and man's infancy , have the faint and ...
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... interest , and touches upon those things which men most should heed . I fear rather to incur the reproach of uttering truisms than paradoxes . But he does ill who is scornful of the trite . To be learned in commonplaces is no mean ...
... interest , and touches upon those things which men most should heed . I fear rather to incur the reproach of uttering truisms than paradoxes . But he does ill who is scornful of the trite . To be learned in commonplaces is no mean ...
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... interest . In some parts of this field there is , or was once , or will be , a physical parallel , an actuality , containing the verification of the imagined state of things ; but so , for the poet , there is a parallel , a conception ...
... interest . In some parts of this field there is , or was once , or will be , a physical parallel , an actuality , containing the verification of the imagined state of things ; but so , for the poet , there is a parallel , a conception ...
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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.