Thoughts for Times and SeasonsC. Griffin, 1872 |
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Act of Uniformity Amorites ancient animals antiquity arrack barrel organ basking beauty Bishop Blackwood's Magazine blessed Block-book buck century Charles Bell chiliasm Christian Church classic common crustacea Cyclopean structures death E. B. TYLOR earth England English Europe everything existence fables father flowers genius give happiness heart honour hope human instance Irenæus Jews Justin Martyr kind knowledge known lady language Latin Lescœur letter live look Lord Lord Harvey man's millenarian mind moral Moral Play nation native nature never opinion pain Papias passions play pleasure poet Polly Stewart Prayer Book present printed Professor prophecy Protestant reason religion rubric saints says Sealed Books sense Sihon story Sweet Spirit temple thee things thou thought tion tree truth Tylor vanity vellum virtue whole Woburn wonder word writing youth
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Seite 39 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Seite 50 - The most accomplished Way of using Books at the present, is twofold: Either first, to serve them as some Men do Lords, learn their Titles exactly, and then brag of their Acquaintance. Or Secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer Method, to get a thorough Insight into the Index, by which the whole Book is governed and turned, like Fishes by the Tail.
Seite 40 - ... whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Seite 50 - Those who have read of everything are thought to understand everything too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Seite 70 - I am not sure that mobility is English ; but it is expressive of a quality which rather belongs to other climates, though it is sometimes seen to a great extent in our own. It may be defined as an excessive susceptibility of immediate impressions — at the same time without losing the past; and is, though sometimes apparently useful to the possessor, a most painful and unhappy attribute...
Seite 50 - The most accomplished way of using books at present is two-fold: either first, to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly, and then brag of their acquaintance. Or secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index, by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail.
Seite 47 - ... parts branched out in the like manner. Nothing is more evident than that divers persons, no other way remarkable, have each a strong disposition to the formation of some particular trope or figure. Aristotle saith, that the hyperbole is an ornament fit for young men of quality ; accordingly we find in those gentlemen a wonderful propensity towards it, which is marvellously improved by travelling.
Seite 31 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood ; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar ; " With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman ;" this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
Seite 87 - She doth tell me where to borrow Comfort in the midst of sorrow ; Makes the desolatest place To her presence be a grace ; And the blackest discontents Be her fairest ornaments.
Seite 59 - ... from the brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it of their fellow-mortals ; no one who holds the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.