The Living Age, Band 226Living Age Company, 1900 |
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... ment is not being contented with that seat , the highest striving is not com- patible with it . No ! in my heart I be- lieve that mediocrity is not golden . It is leaden - it weighs down aspiration , it hinders accomplishment , it ...
... ment is not being contented with that seat , the highest striving is not com- patible with it . No ! in my heart I be- lieve that mediocrity is not golden . It is leaden - it weighs down aspiration , it hinders accomplishment , it ...
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... ment to fall back on : if we did good to no one else , at least our children would thank us for the original benefit of ex- istence ; and till this century the argu- ment was never challenged . Edipus , Job , or Swift , the famous ...
... ment to fall back on : if we did good to no one else , at least our children would thank us for the original benefit of ex- istence ; and till this century the argu- ment was never challenged . Edipus , Job , or Swift , the famous ...
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... ment , and you only do harm by pre- tending that it is . The young teacher nearly always sets out with a theory that his or her business is to teach boys and girls how to think . In every public school you will find young mas- ters who ...
... ment , and you only do harm by pre- tending that it is . The young teacher nearly always sets out with a theory that his or her business is to teach boys and girls how to think . In every public school you will find young mas- ters who ...
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... ment . Exactly what children , boys and girls , ought to learn at school may be matter for discussion , though I can conceive of no more proper basis of study than language , which is to be the vehicle of all our ideas and our means of ...
... ment . Exactly what children , boys and girls , ought to learn at school may be matter for discussion , though I can conceive of no more proper basis of study than language , which is to be the vehicle of all our ideas and our means of ...
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... ment ? Why , not enough to buy sweet parsley . " " Managgia ! " whined the human ser- pent , " Devil be good to me ! A wise man does not flay his own skin . Leave the bees a little honey . What would you have got by the fat old borgese ...
... ment ? Why , not enough to buy sweet parsley . " " Managgia ! " whined the human ser- pent , " Devil be good to me ! A wise man does not flay his own skin . Leave the bees a little honey . What would you have got by the fat old borgese ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 463 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Seite 182 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Seite 25 - ... wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you - you so remote from the night of first ages - could comprehend. And why not? The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Seite 356 - So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.
Seite 356 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment.
Seite 182 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Seite 356 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object; can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Seite 183 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Seite 148 - Ne nous emportons point contre les hommes , en voyant leur dureté, leur ingratitude, leur injustice, leur fierté, l'amour d'eux-mêmes, et l'oubli des autres; ils sont ainsi faits, c'est leur nature : c'est ne pouvoir supporter que la pierre tombe, ou que le feu s'élève.
Seite 15 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.