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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... religion . He believed in a government by demi - gods and heroes , heaven sent , to save the world from becoming hopelessly a " Swine - trough . " rights , the only one of which he is sure is that it is everybody's right to be governed ...
... religion . He believed in a government by demi - gods and heroes , heaven sent , to save the world from becoming hopelessly a " Swine - trough . " rights , the only one of which he is sure is that it is everybody's right to be governed ...
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... religious spirit . " By the first " he is turned to real things , " and by the spirit of the sublime is made able to interpret them so that " in- stead of being sickly and visionary he has become a philosopher and a historian . » This ...
... religious spirit . " By the first " he is turned to real things , " and by the spirit of the sublime is made able to interpret them so that " in- stead of being sickly and visionary he has become a philosopher and a historian . » This ...
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... religions , forgotten noblenesses , made alive again by the breath of Genius , lie here in new coherence and incipient union , the spirit of Art working creative through the mass : that chaos , into which the eighteenth century with its ...
... religions , forgotten noblenesses , made alive again by the breath of Genius , lie here in new coherence and incipient union , the spirit of Art working creative through the mass : that chaos , into which the eighteenth century with its ...
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... Religion arises . The devout meditation of the isolated man , which flitted through his soul like a transient tone of Love and Awe from unknown lands , acquires certainty , contin- uance , when it is shared in by his brother THOMAS ...
... Religion arises . The devout meditation of the isolated man , which flitted through his soul like a transient tone of Love and Awe from unknown lands , acquires certainty , contin- uance , when it is shared in by his brother THOMAS ...
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... religious shades ; the Thinker must , in all senses , wander homeless , too often aimless , looking up to a Heaven which is ... religion . " In England still more strangely ; as in all things , worthy England will have its way : by the ...
... religious shades ; the Thinker must , in all senses , wander homeless , too often aimless , looking up to a Heaven which is ... religion . " In England still more strangely ; as in all things , worthy England will have its way : by the ...
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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.