Essays: First SeriesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 333 sider |
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Side 5
... Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and execu- tioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing right- ly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an ...
... Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and execu- tioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing right- ly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an ...
Side 13
... Greek genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national ...
... Greek genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national ...
Side 14
... manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon , and the remains of the earliest Greek art And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in 14 ESSAY I.
... manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon , and the remains of the earliest Greek art And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in 14 ESSAY I.
Side 17
... Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea . of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By ...
... Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea . of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By ...
Side 21
... Greek history , letters , art , and poetry , in all its periods , from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans , four or five centuries later ? What but this , that every man passes personally ...
... Greek history , letters , art , and poetry , in all its periods , from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans , four or five centuries later ? What but this , that every man passes personally ...
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Side 307 - He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.
Side 46 - I will go to prison, if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand ; alms to sots ; and the thousandfold Relief Societies ; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold.
Side 329 - Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the distinction between the fine and the useful arts be forgotten. If history were truly told, if life were nobly spent, it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other. In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful.
Side 241 - The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve. Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
Side 105 - I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
Side 103 - Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and power, and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing...
Side 65 - And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a task-master. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others.
Side 97 - All things are double, one against another. - Tit for tat; an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth; blood for blood; measure for measure; love for love. - Give and it shall be given you. - He that watereth shall be watered himself. - What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it.
Side 273 - The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end.
Side 62 - This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past; turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame; confounds the saint with the rogue ; shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.