The infernal Quixote, Bände 1-2D. Graisberry, 1801 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 219 - Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory...
Seite 26 - It must be admitted that his energies centered too much in personal regards. But why did he rebel against his maker? It -was, as he himself informs us, because he saw no sufficient reason, for that extreme inequality of rank and power, which the creator assumed.
Seite 226 - A hair, a fly, an insect is able to destroy this mighty being whose life is of such importance. Is it an absurdity to suppose that human prudence may lawfully dispose of what depends on such insignificant causes? It would be no crime in me to divert the Nile or Danube from its course, were I able to effect such purposes. Where then is the crime of turning a few ounces of blood from their natural channel?
Seite 151 - It is absurd to expect that the inclinations and wishes of two human beings should coincide through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and to live together is to subject them to some inevitable portion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.
Seite 169 - We did not marry. It is difficult to recommend any thing to indiscriminate adoption, contrary to the established rules and prejudices of mankind; but certainly nothing can be so ridiculous upon the face of it...
Seite 26 - But why did he rebel against his Maker ? It was, as he himself informs us, because he saw no sufficient reason for that extreme inequality of rank and power which the Creator assumed : it was because prescription and precedent form na adequate ground for implicit faith.
Seite 170 - ... nothing can be so ridiculous upon the face of it, or so contrary to the genuine march of sentiment, as to require the overflowing of the soul to wait upon a ceremony, and that which, wherever delicacy and imagination exist, is of all things most sacredly private, to blow a trumpet before it, and to record the moment when it has arrived at its climax.
Seite 287 - To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; 17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Seite 27 - It was because prescription and precedent form no adequate ground for implicit faith. After his fall, why did he still cherish the spirit of opposition? From a persuasion that he was hardly and injuriously treated. He was not discouraged by the apparent inequality of the contest...
Seite 219 - Others apart sat on a Hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate, Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandring mazes lost.