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... talk . At first its voice was very hoarse and broken , being much troubled by a cobweb which some studious spider had woven across it ; and having probably contracted a cold from long exposure to the chills and damps of the abbey . In a ...
... talk . At first its voice was very hoarse and broken , being much troubled by a cobweb which some studious spider had woven across it ; and having probably contracted a cold from long exposure to the chills and damps of the abbey . In a ...
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... talk of your contemporaries as if in circulation , -where do we meet with their works ? What do we hear of Robert Groteste , of Lincoln ? No one could have toiled harder than he for immortality . He is said to have THE MUTABILITY OF ...
... talk of your contemporaries as if in circulation , -where do we meet with their works ? What do we hear of Robert Groteste , of Lincoln ? No one could have toiled harder than he for immortality . He is said to have THE MUTABILITY OF ...
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... talk of Spenser's ' Well of pure English undefiled ' as if the language ever sprang from a well or fountain - head , and was not rather a mere confluence of various tongues , perpetually subject to changes and intermixt- ures . It is ...
... talk of Spenser's ' Well of pure English undefiled ' as if the language ever sprang from a well or fountain - head , and was not rather a mere confluence of various tongues , perpetually subject to changes and intermixt- ures . It is ...
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... talk seemed then in the same category as to sleep ; not an accomplishment , but a base physical infirmity . As a moralist , I really was culpably careless upon the whole subject . I cared as little what absurdities men practised in ...
... talk seemed then in the same category as to sleep ; not an accomplishment , but a base physical infirmity . As a moralist , I really was culpably careless upon the whole subject . I cared as little what absurdities men practised in ...
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... . On the other hand , supposing your great talker to be re- ceived like any other visitor , and turned loose upon the company , then he must do one of two things : either he will talk upon outré sub- 90 THOMAS DE QUINCEY .
... . On the other hand , supposing your great talker to be re- ceived like any other visitor , and turned loose upon the company , then he must do one of two things : either he will talk upon outré sub- 90 THOMAS DE QUINCEY .
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 274 - 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 48 - ... confines of truth, or wander in the maze of a probable argument. He always keeps the path. You cannot make excursions with him — for he sets you right. His taste never fluctuates. His morality never abates. He cannot compromise, or understand middle actions. There can be but a right and a wrong. His conversation is as a book. His affirmations have the sanctity of an oath. You must speak upon the square with him. He stops a metaphor like a suspected person in an enemy's country.
Seite 3 - I know that all beneath the moon decays. And what by mortals in this world is brought, In time's great period shall return to nought. l know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Seite 210 - All things are double, one against another. — Tit for tat ; an eye for an eye ; a tooth for a tooth ; blood for blood ; measure for measure ; love for love. — Give and it shall be given you. — He that watereth shall be watered himself. — What will you have ? quoth God ; pay for it and take it.
Seite 237 - The moment this view of culture is seized, the moment it is regarded not solely as the endeavour to see things as they are, to draw towards a knowledge of 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 175 - One was the first ambassador whom the New World of Letters sent to the Old.
Seite 90 - ... standing aloof as a sort of monster hired to play tricks of funambulism for the night. Yet again, if he contents himself with a musket like other people, then for...
Seite 202 - ... furtherances, hindrances, energies, and whole system of every other. Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is a compend of the world, and a correlative of every other. Each one is an entire emblem of human life; of its good and ill, its trials, its enemies, its course and its end.
Seite 262 - It was the great middle-class liberalism, which had for the cardinal points of its belief the Reform Bill of 1832, and local self-government, in politics; in the social sphere, free-trade, unrestricted competition, and the making of large industrial fortunes ; in the religious sphere, the Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Seite 196 - POLARITY, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light, in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the systole and diastole of the heart...