Mere Literature, and Other EssaysHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 247 sider |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 16
Side 41
... judgment or his pre- tensions by pretending to know as much as he ? The literature of creation naturally falls into two kinds : that which interprets nature or human ac- tion , and that which interprets self . Both of these may have the ...
... judgment or his pre- tensions by pretending to know as much as he ? The literature of creation naturally falls into two kinds : that which interprets nature or human ac- tion , and that which interprets self . Both of these may have the ...
Side 58
... judgment . - Then he may very safely choose what company his own work shall be done in , — in what manner , and under what masters . He cannot choose amiss for himself or for his generation if he choose like a man , without light whim ...
... judgment . - Then he may very safely choose what company his own work shall be done in , — in what manner , and under what masters . He cannot choose amiss for himself or for his generation if he choose like a man , without light whim ...
Side 64
... judgment , what cheer of good tales , what sanctity of silent thought ! The sight - seers who pass through from day to day , the press of voluble men at the gates , the affectation of citizen- ship by mere sojourners , the folly of ...
... judgment , what cheer of good tales , what sanctity of silent thought ! The sight - seers who pass through from day to day , the press of voluble men at the gates , the affectation of citizen- ship by mere sojourners , the folly of ...
Side 72
... putting faith in the political judgments of those who are not politicians bred in the shrewd and moving world of political management . The genuine practical politician , such as ( even our 72 A LITERARY POLITICIAN .
... putting faith in the political judgments of those who are not politicians bred in the shrewd and moving world of political management . The genuine practical politician , such as ( even our 72 A LITERARY POLITICIAN .
Side 73
... judgments touching public affairs and political in- stitutions . If he be a reading man , as will some- times happen , he is able to point you , in illustration of what you are to expect in such cases , to the very remarkable essays of ...
... judgments touching public affairs and political in- stitutions . If he be a reading man , as will some- times happen , he is able to point you , in illustration of what you are to expect in such cases , to the very remarkable essays of ...
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
affairs age to age American Andrew Jackson atmosphere authentic authors Bagehot better blood bred Buriton Burke Burke's character color common conceived constitution continent critical deemed East Edmund Edmund Burke England English facts fashion feel force frontier genius give heart Henry Clay historian human imagination immortality insight John Adams judgment keep learning liberty Lincoln litera literary literature live look Lord Rockingham matter mean ment midst mind narrative nature neighbors never passion Patrick Henry phrase ples politician politics practical principles purpose questions race scholarship seems sentences singular slavery society sort speak speech spirit stand statesmen story Stuckey's style Sydney Smith taste tell tence things thought tion tone touch truth ture utterance Walter Bagehot West Westminster School Whig whole William Burke wise words writing wrote
Populære avsnitt
Side 240 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Side 143 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Side 145 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Side 153 - We see that the parts of the system do not clash. The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise. One advantage is as little as possible sacrificed to another. We compensate, we reconcile, we balance. We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. From hence arises, not an excellence in simplicity, but, one far superior, an excellence in composition.
Side 148 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Side 106 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Side 147 - Such is steadfastly my opinion of the absolute necessity of keeping up the concord of this empire by a unity of spirit, though in a diversity of operations, that, if I were sure the colonists had, at their leaving this country, sealed a regular compact of servitude ; that they had solemnly abjured all the rights of citizens ; that they had made a vow to renounce all ideas of liberty for them and their posterity to all generations, yet I should hold myself obliged to conform to the temper I found...
Side 146 - I do not choose to be caught by a foreign enemy at the end of this exhausting conflict; and still less in the midst of it. I may escape ; but I can make no insurance against such an event. Let me add, that I do not choose wholly to break the American spirit; because it is the spirit that has made the country.
Side 151 - Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.
Side 106 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.