With the ProfessorH. Holt, 1910 - 360 Seiten |
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... in and own a ten thousand dollar home - at least in this life . " This time it was his wife who spoke : " Dearie , what a pessimist you are ! You are positively growing worse every day " ; and added , in A Prelude on Pessimism 5.
... in and own a ten thousand dollar home - at least in this life . " This time it was his wife who spoke : " Dearie , what a pessimist you are ! You are positively growing worse every day " ; and added , in A Prelude on Pessimism 5.
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... thousand doctor's disserta- tions contained anything worth while , and that the main thing was to display method , thoroughness , and accuracy . To be sure , that sounded very much like saying that it made no difference what the Dr ...
... thousand doctor's disserta- tions contained anything worth while , and that the main thing was to display method , thoroughness , and accuracy . To be sure , that sounded very much like saying that it made no difference what the Dr ...
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... thousand times as many practical and useful facts as Cicero , and wrote them down ; but they are lying in cold obstruction because they were not recorded in the language of an artist . Their very existence would be forgotten if pedantry ...
... thousand times as many practical and useful facts as Cicero , and wrote them down ; but they are lying in cold obstruction because they were not recorded in the language of an artist . Their very existence would be forgotten if pedantry ...
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... the tribes that slumbered in its bosom . Even in Athens , at a time for fecundity of intellect unexampled in the world's history , there had been only one great man in five thousand . What if his own age Mud and Nails 105.
... the tribes that slumbered in its bosom . Even in Athens , at a time for fecundity of intellect unexampled in the world's history , there had been only one great man in five thousand . What if his own age Mud and Nails 105.
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Grant Showerman. man in five thousand . What if his own age pro- duced only one in a million , or none at all ? There had been such ages before . The leaven was nevertheless working ; the soil was swelling the seed , and some day would ...
Grant Showerman. man in five thousand . What if his own age pro- duced only one in a million , or none at all ? There had been such ages before . The leaven was nevertheless working ; the soil was swelling the seed , and some day would ...
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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.