Three-cornered EssaysJ. Hogg, 1886 - 314 sider |
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Side 2
... look at the way in which different people regard different events , these tendencies will come out more clearly . A man is taken ill . The pessimist at once concludes that he will never get better ; and the optimist , though grave symp ...
... look at the way in which different people regard different events , these tendencies will come out more clearly . A man is taken ill . The pessimist at once concludes that he will never get better ; and the optimist , though grave symp ...
Side 3
... looks forward to the time when gaols and hospitals and workhouses will not be wanted ; when moral and intellectual failure will be unknown ; when the human subject , healthy and long lived , will blossom into the incomparable Osiris ...
... looks forward to the time when gaols and hospitals and workhouses will not be wanted ; when moral and intellectual failure will be unknown ; when the human subject , healthy and long lived , will blossom into the incomparable Osiris ...
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... look on myself as dead , and remain calm , cold , and indifferent . " No one can read John Stuart Mill's violent arraignment of the whole course of Nature without seeing that , on the most basal grounds , he is a pessimist . We have the ...
... look on myself as dead , and remain calm , cold , and indifferent . " No one can read John Stuart Mill's violent arraignment of the whole course of Nature without seeing that , on the most basal grounds , he is a pessimist . We have the ...
Side 9
... look at the different ways in which Greeks and Romans regarded the subject of stoicism . The Greeks argued about things , while the Romans simply did them . The Greek argued the question generally , but the Roman opened a vein and ...
... look at the different ways in which Greeks and Romans regarded the subject of stoicism . The Greeks argued about things , while the Romans simply did them . The Greek argued the question generally , but the Roman opened a vein and ...
Side 17
... look closely into this dreary delusion of growing old , we shall find that it never absolutely succeeds in laying hold of our innermost convictions . A sombre garment , woven of life's unrealities , has muffled us from our true self ...
... look closely into this dreary delusion of growing old , we shall find that it never absolutely succeeds in laying hold of our innermost convictions . A sombre garment , woven of life's unrealities , has muffled us from our true self ...
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Side 15 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone...
Side 308 - Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual. Restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Side 95 - My soul shall be satisfied, even as it were with marrow and fatness : when my mouth praiseth thee with joyful lips. 7 Have I not remembered thee in my bed : and thought upon thee when I was waking ? 8 Because thou hast been my helper : therefore under the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
Side 273 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Side 30 - sa fancy some lean to and others hate — That, when this life is ended, begins New work for the soul in another state, Where it strives and gets weary, loses and wins...
Side 109 - Thou h'ast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is to be banished thy native country, to be over-ruled as well as to rule and sit upon the throne; and being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man...
Side 51 - His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
Side 12 - tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Side 242 - Fair goes the dancing when the sitar's tuned ; Tune us the sitar neither low nor high, And we will dance away the hearts of men. " The string o'erstretched breaks, and the music flies The string o'erslack is dumb, and music dies ; Tune us the sitar neither low nor high.