Representative Essays: Selected from the Series of "Prose Masterpieces from the Modern Essayist."George Haven Putnam G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1885 - 395 Seiten |
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... kind of literary catacomb , where authors , like mummies , are piously entombed , and left to blacken and moulder in dusty oblivion . How much , thought I , has each of these volumes , now thrust aside with such indifference , cost some ...
... kind of literary catacomb , where authors , like mummies , are piously entombed , and left to blacken and moulder in dusty oblivion . How much , thought I , has each of these volumes , now thrust aside with such indifference , cost some ...
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... kind of discourse , if it were not a little relieved by the uncouth terms and phrases , as well as accent and gestures pecu- liar to that country , would be hardly tolerable . Hints Toward an Essay on Conver sation . - I cannot must and ...
... kind of discourse , if it were not a little relieved by the uncouth terms and phrases , as well as accent and gestures pecu- liar to that country , would be hardly tolerable . Hints Toward an Essay on Conver sation . - I cannot must and ...
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... kind of secondary or laic - truth is tolerated , where clergy - truth — oath- truth by the nature of the circumstances , is not required . A Quaker knows none of this distinction . His simple affirmation being received , upon the most ...
... kind of secondary or laic - truth is tolerated , where clergy - truth — oath- truth by the nature of the circumstances , is not required . A Quaker knows none of this distinction . His simple affirmation being received , upon the most ...
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... kind . Usually this is other- wise ; the prevailing rule is , that the principle subsists unaffected by any possible variation in the amount or degree of the force . But a large class of exceptions must have met the reader , though from ...
... kind . Usually this is other- wise ; the prevailing rule is , that the principle subsists unaffected by any possible variation in the amount or degree of the force . But a large class of exceptions must have met the reader , though from ...
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... kind is wasting our jewelly hours . A day has perished from our brief calendar of days , and that we could endure ; but this day is no more than the reiteration of many other days , days counted by thousands , that have perished to the ...
... kind is wasting our jewelly hours . A day has perished from our brief calendar of days , and that we could endure ; but this day is no more than the reiteration of many other days , days counted by thousands , that have perished to the ...
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Seite 112 - It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely, — nourished and not bound by them. This is the social idea; and the men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
Seite 74 - Always some damning circumstance transpires. The laws and substances of nature, water, snow, wind, gravitation, become penalties to the thief. On the other hand the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
Seite 76 - The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame ; every prison a more illustrious abode ; every burned book or house enlightens the world ; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
Seite 282 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Seite 244 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Seite 86 - ... the universal order which seems to be intended and aimed at in the world, and which it is a man's happiness to go along with or his misery to go counter to, — to learn, in short, the will of God...
Seite 242 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction.
Seite 63 - The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point.
Seite 72 - He is great who confers the most benefits. He is base, — and that is the one base thing in the universe, — to receive favors and render none. In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.
Seite 70 - ... of property and power, are avenged in the same manner. Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions. One thing he teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears.; He is a carrion crow, and though you see not well what he hovers for, there is death somewhere. Our property is timid, our laws are timid, our cultivated classes are timid. Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property.