Mere Literature, and Other EssaysHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 247 sider |
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... passionate pamphlets that survive their mission because of the direct action of their style along permanent lines of thought , contain more history than parliamentary journals . It is not knowledge that moves the world , but ideals ...
... passionate pamphlets that survive their mission because of the direct action of their style along permanent lines of thought , contain more history than parliamentary journals . It is not knowledge that moves the world , but ideals ...
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... passion . We might say of literature what Wordsworth said of poetry , the most easily immortal part of literature : it is " the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science ; it is the breath of the finer spirit of ...
... passion . We might say of literature what Wordsworth said of poetry , the most easily immortal part of literature : it is " the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science ; it is the breath of the finer spirit of ...
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... passion , but carries the strain with unshaken strength . It is not trivial or mean , but speaks what small mean- ings fall in its way with simplicity , as conscious of their smallness . Its playfulness is within bounds ; its laugh ...
... passion , but carries the strain with unshaken strength . It is not trivial or mean , but speaks what small mean- ings fall in its way with simplicity , as conscious of their smallness . Its playfulness is within bounds ; its laugh ...
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... passion , always the many things which we call the one thing , character , which create and shape our acting . Life quite overtowers logic . Thinking and erudition alone will not equip for the great tasks and triumphs of life and litera ...
... passion , always the many things which we call the one thing , character , which create and shape our acting . Life quite overtowers logic . Thinking and erudition alone will not equip for the great tasks and triumphs of life and litera ...
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... passion to the thought , the secret is his , and an entrance to that immortal communion . ― It may be that some learn the mystery of that insight without tutors ; but most must put them- selves under governors and earn their initiation ...
... passion to the thought , the secret is his , and an entrance to that immortal communion . ― It may be that some learn the mystery of that insight without tutors ; but most must put them- selves under governors and earn their initiation ...
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Side 234 - 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 139 - 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 141 - 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 143 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Side 144 - 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 149 - 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 102 - 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 143 - 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 142 - 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 147 - 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.