With the ProfessorH. Holt, 1910 - 360 Seiten |
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... matter , especially lacteal matter . He continued . The pessimist looked through the wrong end of the telescope . The pessimist saw the rule , the optimist the exception . The optimist used a magnifying glass in contempla- tion of his ...
... matter , especially lacteal matter . He continued . The pessimist looked through the wrong end of the telescope . The pessimist saw the rule , the optimist the exception . The optimist used a magnifying glass in contempla- tion of his ...
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... matter of fact , many who were regarded by their laughing neighbors as pessimists were in reality only idealists . There was no more common mistake among the multitude . It was natural enough for an idealist sometimes to fall prey to ...
... matter of fact , many who were regarded by their laughing neighbors as pessimists were in reality only idealists . There was no more common mistake among the multitude . It was natural enough for an idealist sometimes to fall prey to ...
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... matter , or as a machine to raw material , was surely a triumph . That he was foregoing his own pleasure , and in a way sacrificing himself by slighting the lit- erary side of his subject , may also have contrib- uted in no slight ...
... matter , or as a machine to raw material , was surely a triumph . That he was foregoing his own pleasure , and in a way sacrificing himself by slighting the lit- erary side of his subject , may also have contrib- uted in no slight ...
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... matter - of - fact world about him ? If he must be a professor , ought he not to have chosen at least some subject classed as vital or practical or use- ful - engineering , for example , or agriculture , or domestic science ? But here ...
... matter - of - fact world about him ? If he must be a professor , ought he not to have chosen at least some subject classed as vital or practical or use- ful - engineering , for example , or agriculture , or domestic science ? But here ...
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... arguing with a man who spoke with such fervor . She knew even better than a professor that reli- gious convictions are not proper matter for argument ; so she determined she determined to concede a 100 With the Professor.
... arguing with a man who spoke with such fervor . She knew even better than a professor that reli- gious convictions are not proper matter for argument ; so she determined she determined to concede a 100 With the Professor.
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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.