Twelve EssaysG. Slater, 1849 - 261 sider |
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Side 9
... always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man ESSAY Ι. ...
... always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man ESSAY Ι. ...
Side 11
... gives worth to par- ticular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason , all express at least reverence for ...
... gives worth to par- ticular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason , all express at least reverence for ...
Side 25
... gives of himself and his compatriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thou- sand . " After the army had crossed the river Tele- boas in Armenia , there fell much snow , and the troops lay miserably on the ground , covered with it . But ...
... gives of himself and his compatriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thou- sand . " After the army had crossed the river Tele- boas in Armenia , there fell much snow , and the troops lay miserably on the ground , covered with it . But ...
Side 29
... gives the history of reli- gion with some closeness to the faith of later ages . Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology . He is the friend of man ; stands between the unjust ' justice ' of the Eternal Father and the race of ...
... gives the history of reli- gion with some closeness to the faith of later ages . Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology . He is the friend of man ; stands between the unjust ' justice ' of the Eternal Father and the race of ...
Side 32
... gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet it is much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the reason that it operates a wonderful ...
... gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet it is much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the reason that it operates a wonderful ...
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Side 43 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it.
Side 48 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Side 40 - A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events.
Side 51 - Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation of Luther; Quakerism of Fox; Methodism of Wesley; Abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome"; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest...
Side 45 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Side 63 - Our sympathy is just as base. We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason.
Side 38 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
Side 138 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought.
Side 92 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Side 69 - Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind.