The Conduct of LifeJ.R. Osgood, 1876 - 256 Seiten |
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Seite 96 - highest IV. CULTURE. CAN rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky, And tender to the spirit-touch Of man's or maiden's eye : But, to his native centre fast, Shall into Future fuse the Fast, And the world's flowing
Seite 129 - The age of the quadruped is to go out,— the age of the brain and of the heart is to come in. The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all the material. He is to convert all impediments into
Seite 141 - whether in indolent vision, (that of health and beauty,) or in strained vision, (that of art and labor.) Eyes are bold as lions, — roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen ; ask no leave of age, or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches,
Seite 255 - convertibility of every thing into every other thing. Facts which had never before left their stark common sense, suddenly figure as Eleusinian mysteries. My boots and chair and candlestick are fairies in disguise, meteors and constellations. All the facts in Nature are nouns of the intellect, and make
Seite 226 - are you, and I am I. Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. Our habit of thought, — take men as they rise, — is not satisfying ; in the common experience, I fear, it is
Seite 130 - all enemies into power. The formidable mischief will only make the more useful slave. And if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic effort of Nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he will not
Seite 244 - never teach a badly built man to walk well. The tint of the flower proceeds from its root, and the lustres of the sea-shell begin with its existence. Hence our taste in building rejects paint, and all shifts, and shows the original grain of the wood : refuses pilasters and columns that support nothing, and
Seite 202 - Will fetch all fruits and virtues here* Fool and foe may harmless roam, Loved and lovers bide at home. A day for toil, an hour for sport, But for a friend is life too short. CONSIDERATIONS BY THE WAY. ALTHOUGH this garrulity of advising is born with