Heart of Man, and Other PapersHarcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920 - 323 Seiten |
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... land , and in consequence they have seemed , to my imagination , more closely united here than is common . On a stormy afternoon I had strolled down the main road , and was walking toward Letojanni . I came , after a little , to a great ...
... land , and in consequence they have seemed , to my imagination , more closely united here than is common . On a stormy afternoon I had strolled down the main road , and was walking toward Letojanni . I came , after a little , to a great ...
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... land . It was the kiss of Etna on my cheek . V - Will you hear the legend of Taormina ? — for in these days I dare not call it history . Noble and romantic it is , and age - long . I had not hoped to recover it ; but my friend the ...
... land . It was the kiss of Etna on my cheek . V - Will you hear the legend of Taormina ? — for in these days I dare not call it history . Noble and romantic it is , and age - long . I had not hoped to recover it ; but my friend the ...
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... land , and Demeter in her search for Proserpina wept on this hill , and Charybdis lay stretched out under these bluffs watching the sea . It is precise enough to say that Taormina began eighty years before the Trojan War . Very dimly ...
... land , and Demeter in her search for Proserpina wept on this hill , and Charybdis lay stretched out under these bluffs watching the sea . It is precise enough to say that Taormina began eighty years before the Trojan War . Very dimly ...
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... land . Shall I add , from the few relics of that age , that Pythagoras , on the journey he undertook to establish the governments of the Sicilian cities , wrought miracles here , curing a mad lover of his frenzy by music , and being ...
... land . Shall I add , from the few relics of that age , that Pythagoras , on the journey he undertook to establish the governments of the Sicilian cities , wrought miracles here , curing a mad lover of his frenzy by music , and being ...
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... land , and every city had fallen except Syracuse and Taormina . For sixty years the former held out , and in our city for yet another thirty , the sole refuge of the Christians . Signs of the impending destruction were first seen by ...
... land , and every city had fallen except Syracuse and Taormina . For sixty years the former held out , and in our city for yet another thirty , the sole refuge of the Christians . Signs of the impending destruction were first seen by ...
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Seite 322 - baptismal night. I wish I might dip you in these spiritual waters. It is nothing that we are humble; the humblest life may be a life of sacrifice, and the poorer it is, generally, the greater is the sacrifice. Light is the same in the sun and in the candle. "How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a
Seite 238 - Adam Smith contributed more, by the publication of this single work, towards the happiness of men than has been effected by the united abilities of all the statesmen and legislators of whom history has preserved an authentic account.
Seite 124 - fearfully yet exactly described in the Apostle's words, 'having no hope and without God in the world,' — all this is a vision to dizzy and appall; and inflicts upon the mind the sense of a profound mystery which is absolutely beyond human solution.
Seite 322 - the aim of the foe. Death is not the worst of life. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. Above all, do not draw back because everything is not plain, and you may, perhaps, be mistaken; obscurity is always the air of the present hour; "at the evening time,
Seite 308 - remembered it because the words were almost identical with Lowell's. "I am impatient," he said at Birmingham, "of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can most easily be borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.
Seite 313 - is money against legislation. My friends, you and I shall be in our graves long before that battle is ended; and unless our children have more patience and courage than saved this country from slavery, republican institutions will go down before moneyed corporations.
Seite 4 - The intention of the author was to illustrate how poetry, politics, and religion are the flowering of the same human spirit, and have their feeding roots in a common soil, "deep in the general heart of men.
Seite 306 - he liked to mask his wisdom in a distinguished name, often said: "We are well aware that the privileges of the people, the rights of free
Seite 301 - Despotism looks down into the poor man's cradle, and knows it can crush resistance and curb ill-will. Democracy sees the ballot in that baby-hand;
Seite 124 - and inflicts upon the mind the sense of a profound mystery which is absolutely beyond human solution.