The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volum 9David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 sider |
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Side 3266
... object by turns astonishes , misleads , and inflames the imagination ? What is liberty ? * I cannot consider it so generally ; I distinguish , liberty of the will , that of the mind . I doubt whether the first exists ; the sec- ond ...
... object by turns astonishes , misleads , and inflames the imagination ? What is liberty ? * I cannot consider it so generally ; I distinguish , liberty of the will , that of the mind . I doubt whether the first exists ; the sec- ond ...
Side 3269
... objects of our esteem , the more , too , do we remain violently attached to those which we preserve and which we think we ought to dis- tinguish . Reason , virtue , everything draws these ties the closer ; if cruel necessity chance to ...
... objects of our esteem , the more , too , do we remain violently attached to those which we preserve and which we think we ought to dis- tinguish . Reason , virtue , everything draws these ties the closer ; if cruel necessity chance to ...
Side 3271
... object that we relieve , and the assistance we give him becomes a want to those by whom it is administered . He who has once caused the tears of gratitude to flow , and who can afterwards seek a pleasure sweeter than that , is not ...
... object that we relieve , and the assistance we give him becomes a want to those by whom it is administered . He who has once caused the tears of gratitude to flow , and who can afterwards seek a pleasure sweeter than that , is not ...
Side 3273
... objects which present themselves ; but it cannot contribute to improve the judgment , except of those who have theirs already well formed . Men , in general , lose part of their natural character by being in continual company , and we ...
... objects which present themselves ; but it cannot contribute to improve the judgment , except of those who have theirs already well formed . Men , in general , lose part of their natural character by being in continual company , and we ...
Side 3274
... objects , or tyrannizing over us so much by their presence , that it is still surprising that we can employ ourselves about so many things . What a considerable portion of time lost to the mind ! In representing to ourselves the species ...
... objects , or tyrannizing over us so much by their presence , that it is still surprising that we can employ ourselves about so many things . What a considerable portion of time lost to the mind ! In representing to ourselves the species ...
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Side 3288 - Who saw the narrow sunbeam that came out of the south and smote upon their summits until they melted and mouldered away in a dust of blue rain? Who saw the dance of the dead clouds when the sunlight left them last night, and the west wind blew them before it like withered leaves?
Side 3288 - Who saw the dance of the dead clouds where the sunlight left them last night, and the west wind blew them before it like withered leaves? All has passed unregretted as unseen; or if the apathy be ever shaken off even for an instant, it is only by what is gross, or what is extraordinary. And yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, nor in the clash of the hail, nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not...
Side 3548 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Side 3453 - How many merchants and carriers, besides, must have been employed in transporting the materials from some of those workmen to others who often live in a very distant part of the country ? How much commerce and navigation in particular, how many ship-builders, sailors, sail-makers, rope-makers, must have been employed in order to bring together the different drugs made use of by the dyer, which often come from the remotest corners of the world...
Side 3287 - IT 1s a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which' nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man — more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him, and teaching him — than in any other of her works; and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.
Side 3388 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music ; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Side 3439 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Side 3617 - ... gone who seem'd so great. — Gone ; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in State, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him. Speak no more of his renown, Lay your earthly fancies down, And in the vast cathedral leave him. God accept him, Christ receive him.
Side 3434 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Side 3656 - I should be glad to see you the instrument of introducing into our style that simplicity, which is the, best and truest ornament of most things in. human life...