Twelve EssaysG. Slater, 1849 - 261 sider |
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Side 13
... instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining either the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences avail to keep a fact ...
... instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining either the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences avail to keep a fact ...
Side 31
... instincts or sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts as one that comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master , and the ...
... instincts or sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts as one that comes of a higher race , remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master , and the ...
Side 53
... Instinct . We de- note this primary wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which ...
... Instinct . We de- note this primary wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which ...
Side 68
... instincts . What a contrast between the well- clad , reading , writing , thinking American , with a watch , a pencil , and a bill of exchange in his pocket , and the naked New Zealander , whose property is a club , a spear , a mat , and ...
... instincts . What a contrast between the well- clad , reading , writing , thinking American , with a watch , a pencil , and a bill of exchange in his pocket , and the naked New Zealander , whose property is a club , a spear , a mat , and ...
Side 87
... instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a noble asceticism and vicarious virtue , are the trem- blings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man . Experienced men of the world know very ...
... instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a noble asceticism and vicarious virtue , are the trem- blings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man . Experienced men of the world know very ...
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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.