Essays of American Essayists: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches, with a Special Introduction by Chauncey C. StarkweatherColonial Press, 1900 - 456 Seiten |
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... interest in those of my fellow - citizens for whom these lectures are principally designed . I understood that they were to be attended chiefly by those who are occupied by manual labor ; and , hearing this , I did not feel myself at ...
... interest in those of my fellow - citizens for whom these lectures are principally designed . I understood that they were to be attended chiefly by those who are occupied by manual labor ; and , hearing this , I did not feel myself at ...
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... interest in the obscure , in the mass of men . The distinctions of society vanish before the light of these truths . I attach my- self to the multitude , not because they are voters and have po- litical power ; but because they are men ...
... interest in the obscure , in the mass of men . The distinctions of society vanish before the light of these truths . I attach my- self to the multitude , not because they are voters and have po- litical power ; but because they are men ...
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... interest , grati- fication , distinction ; and he discovers another principle , an antagonist to these , which is impartial , disinterested , universal , enjoining on him a regard to the rights and happiness of other beings , and laying ...
... interest , grati- fication , distinction ; and he discovers another principle , an antagonist to these , which is impartial , disinterested , universal , enjoining on him a regard to the rights and happiness of other beings , and laying ...
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... interests it opposes , to what persecution or loss it lays me open , from what party it severs me , or to what party it allies . Without this fairness of mind , which is only another phrase for disinterested love of truth , great native ...
... interests it opposes , to what persecution or loss it lays me open , from what party it severs me , or to what party it allies . Without this fairness of mind , which is only another phrase for disinterested love of truth , great native ...
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... than all the outward material interests of a world . It exists for itself , for its own perfection , and must not be enslaved to its own or others ' animal wants . You tell me that a liberal culture is needed for men who SELF - CULTURE 31.
... than all the outward material interests of a world . It exists for itself , for its own perfection , and must not be enslaved to its own or others ' animal wants . You tell me that a liberal culture is needed for men who SELF - CULTURE 31.
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Seite 9 - Things, for they may all be blasted without the Blessing of Heaven; and therefore, ask that Blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember, Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Seite 37 - God be thanked for books ! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Seite 224 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Seite 170 - Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.
Seite 224 - Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes; With everything that pretty bin : My lady sweet, arise! Arise! arise!
Seite 8 - When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Seite 225 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? — The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide, The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide ; The hum of bees ; the linnet's lay of love ; And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Seite 264 - 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," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore — Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Seite 112 - I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Seite 248 - I am somewhat too fond of these great mercies, but also because I should have often brought to my mind the many hardships, miseries, and wants, that my poor family was like to meet with, should I be taken from them, especially my poor blind child, who lay nearer my heart than all beside. Oh ! the thoughts of the hardship I thought my poor blind one might go under, would break my heart to pieces.