The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen3David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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... morally great , by being in his own age what in some other ages many might have been a genuine man . His grand excellency was this , that he was genuine . As his primary faculty , the foundation of all others , was Intellect , depth and ...
... morally great , by being in his own age what in some other ages many might have been a genuine man . His grand excellency was this , that he was genuine . As his primary faculty , the foundation of all others , was Intellect , depth and ...
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... moral , intellectual , political , poetical , than in merely corporeal therapeutics ; that wherever , or in what shape soever , powers of the sort which can be named vital are at work , herein lies the test of their working right , or ...
... moral , intellectual , political , poetical , than in merely corporeal therapeutics ; that wherever , or in what shape soever , powers of the sort which can be named vital are at work , herein lies the test of their working right , or ...
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... Moral : for properly , indeed , all communion is of a moral sort , whereof such intellectual communion ( in the act of knowing ) , is itself an example . But with regard to Morals strictly so called , it is in Society , we might almost ...
... Moral : for properly , indeed , all communion is of a moral sort , whereof such intellectual communion ( in the act of knowing ) , is itself an example . But with regard to Morals strictly so called , it is in Society , we might almost ...
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... moral intents prevailing , against it . True , Burns had little means , had even little time for poetry , his only real pursuit and vocation ; but so much the more precious was what little he had . In all these external respects his ...
... moral intents prevailing , against it . True , Burns had little means , had even little time for poetry , his only real pursuit and vocation ; but so much the more precious was what little he had . In all these external respects his ...
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... morals ; and a sin- gle not a double aim in their activity . They were not self- seekers and self - worshipers ; but ... morality , in most of its practical points , is that of a mere worldly man ; enjoyment , in a finer or a coarser ...
... morals ; and a sin- gle not a double aim in their activity . They were not self- seekers and self - worshipers ; but ... morality , in most of its practical points , is that of a mere worldly man ; enjoyment , in a finer or a coarser ...
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Página 1096 - Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more. If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wings Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover. But the spite on 't is, no praise Is due at all to me: Love with me had made no stays.
Página 1033 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Página 1138 - States, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
Página 1037 - D'avenant K* Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed, and Those which he design'd for the Press: Now Published Out of the Authors Originall Copies. London: Printed by TN for Henry Herringman, at the Sign of the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange. 1673.
Página 1064 - Oh ! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away, Who would not scorn what housewife's cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly thing of use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail beauty must decay...
Página 1033 - Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots : your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, — two dishes, but to one table : that's the end.
Página 1024 - Without doubt, no man with more wickedness ever attempted anything, or brought to pass what he desired more wickedly, more in the face and contempt of religion, and moral honesty; yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs, without the assistance of a great spirit, an admirable circumspection, and sagacity, and a most magnanimous resolution.
Página 1163 - ... of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me...
Página 1033 - A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.] KING. What dost thou mean by this? HAM. Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. KING. Where is Polonius? HAM. In heaven; send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i
Página 1056 - I believe that the experiences of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition — certain emotions responding to right and wrong conduct, which have no apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility.