Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric and Journalism of the University of MichiganHarcourt, Brace, 1924 - 428 Seiten |
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Alexander Meiklejohn American Amherst College Bandar-log beautiful become believe better bitter beer character CHARLES LAMB CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY church delight discipline Emporia Gazette English essays experience eyes fact feel follow FRANCIS BACON George Meredith girl give Greek hand heart hermit crab honor hour human idea ideal idol imagination intel intellectual interest knowledge language learned less literary literature live look matter Max Eastman means ment mind moral nation nature ness never night Oxford peace perhaps person philosophy play pleasure poet poetic poetry practical purpose seems sense Shakespeare social sort soul speak spirit stand student sure taste teacher tell things thou thought tion true truth undergraduate virtue whole William Allen White woman women words worship write Wu Tingfang young
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Seite 127 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...
Seite 64 - Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Seite 146 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Seite 134 - Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion and prejudice and tradition and delusion and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake...
Seite 2 - For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one. but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
Seite 36 - Those who roused the people to resistance, who directed their measures through a long series of eventful years, who formed, out of th« most unpromising materials, the finest army that Europe had ever seen, who trampled down king, church, and aristocracy, who, in the short intervals of domestic sedition and rebellion, made the name of England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics.
Seite 21 - ... owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, "that would be foolish, indeed.
Seite 71 - the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation.
Seite 382 - Active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds that support it and the further conclusions to which it tends constitutes reflective thought.
Seite 1 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.