With the ProfessorH. Holt, 1910 - 360 Seiten |
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... gone away from home to the academy , and while pursuing what in those days in that town was considered the main concern of secondary school education - attending trials in the circuit court near by - he had been hor- rified to find that ...
... gone away from home to the academy , and while pursuing what in those days in that town was considered the main concern of secondary school education - attending trials in the circuit court near by - he had been hor- rified to find that ...
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... gone abroad , and had seen the cruel life of sea - faring men , the circling of birds of prey over the track of the tourist , the bestial- ity of life in large cities , the all - pervasive spirit of greed , manifest even in the ...
... gone abroad , and had seen the cruel life of sea - faring men , the circling of birds of prey over the track of the tourist , the bestial- ity of life in large cities , the all - pervasive spirit of greed , manifest even in the ...
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... induced to throw away their glasses , had been obliged to look through those of their friends the pessi- mists ; for they had gone so long without relying upon their natural eyesight that they had to have glasses A Prelude on Pessimism 27.
... induced to throw away their glasses , had been obliged to look through those of their friends the pessi- mists ; for they had gone so long without relying upon their natural eyesight that they had to have glasses A Prelude on Pessimism 27.
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... gone well , and would go well . His friends also told him So. In vain ; on such days he suffered as much as if he really were in trouble . At times he was tempted to believe that this kind of pessimism - for which you surely will not ...
... gone well , and would go well . His friends also told him So. In vain ; on such days he suffered as much as if he really were in trouble . At times he was tempted to believe that this kind of pessimism - for which you surely will not ...
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... gone far on the road to those powers of literary appreciation and that richness of intellectual equipment which he had always coveted ; the study of things about litera- ture left him no time to study literature itself . He was athirst ...
... gone far on the road to those powers of literary appreciation and that richness of intellectual equipment which he had always coveted ; the study of things about litera- ture left him no time to study literature itself . He was athirst ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 99 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Seite 345 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Seite 163 - And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Seite 333 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Seite 226 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Seite 201 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Seite 201 - Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Seite 193 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Seite 358 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.