...easy; but as one goes deep into things, one must still keep a charm, and one must carry into these dark depths of thought, into which speculation has...whole page into a phrase, and this phrase into one word,—that man is myself." " I can sow, but I cannot build." Joubert, however, makes no claim to...

...words revenge/ themselves by difficulty. If there is a man tormented by the cursed ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and this phrase into a word, it is I. Certain parts spring up in me naturally, too finished to allow me to dispense with...

...miniature-painting of himself :— If ever a man was tormented by the accursed ambition of putting a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, I am that man. It will be said that I speak with subtlety. This is sometimes...

...miniature-painting of himself: — If ever a man was tormented by the accursed ambition of putting a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, I am that man. It will be said that I speak with .-subtlety. This is sometimes...

...of matter and of style. Said Joubert : " If there is a man tormented by the accursed ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, it is I." Little wonder that Joubert has succeeded La Rochefoucauld as the...

...suffered from what a famous writer of aphorisms in our time has described as " the cursed ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and the phrase into a word." But the moral thought itself in Tacitus mostly belongs less to the practical...

...the literary form of his work : If there exists a man tormented by the accursed ambition of putting a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, that man is myself. Joubert was a natural unchangeable classicist in taste...

...that are not clear is very narrow. II. If ever a man was tormented by the accursed ambition of putting a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, I am that man. 12. It will be said that I speak with subtlety. This is sometimes...

...very keystone of the arch of his fame : " If there is a man tormented by the accursed ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, it is I." All these passages are from that first chapter, ' The author portrayed...

...and Emerson might say, even more than Joubert, that if any man ever lived who made it his aim to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and a whole phrase into a word, he is that man. (.S"i7 est un homme tourmente par la maudite ambition dc...