Studies in life, literature, and philosophyA. Strahan, 1865 |
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... never made any demand what- ever ; nor did he understand how such demands could be made by others , however softened by that cheerful , genial give - and - take which goes so near to beautify human intercourse upon ordinary levels . " I ...
... never made any demand what- ever ; nor did he understand how such demands could be made by others , however softened by that cheerful , genial give - and - take which goes so near to beautify human intercourse upon ordinary levels . " I ...
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... never be comfortable till I can get up some of the instinctive self - importance which carries others over the heads of the little con- flicts of life . " These little conflicts were the especial horror of Mr Holbeach . He used to call ...
... never be comfortable till I can get up some of the instinctive self - importance which carries others over the heads of the little con- flicts of life . " These little conflicts were the especial horror of Mr Holbeach . He used to call ...
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... never quite understood his views upon the subject of Controversial Action and Reaction . But they were very peculiar , and tended to keep him out of all aggressive movements and organi- sations . Mr Matthew Arnold , in one of his essays ...
... never quite understood his views upon the subject of Controversial Action and Reaction . But they were very peculiar , and tended to keep him out of all aggressive movements and organi- sations . Mr Matthew Arnold , in one of his essays ...
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... At bottom he was quite sane and quite practical on all such matters , and never meddled , except in the way of " free criticism ; " but that criticism always leaned to the resisting side . It FIRST WORDS BY THE EDITOR . 11.
... At bottom he was quite sane and quite practical on all such matters , and never meddled , except in the way of " free criticism ; " but that criticism always leaned to the resisting side . It FIRST WORDS BY THE EDITOR . 11.
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... never left me ; is a habit which no preoccupation ever breaks through . When I was a little boy , it had upon me a deeply solemnising influ- ence of a diffused kind . The effect upon my mind did not cease with the hour . As I was such a ...
... never left me ; is a habit which no preoccupation ever breaks through . When I was a little boy , it had upon me a deeply solemnising influ- ence of a diffused kind . The effect upon my mind did not cease with the hour . As I was such a ...
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Strona 136 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield ; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Strona 142 - And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man ; and he saw : and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Strona 137 - Not once or twice in our rough island-story The path of duty was the way to glory. He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which out-redden All voluptuous garden-roses.
Strona 6 - It is noticeable that the word curiosity, which in other languages is used in a good sense, to mean, as a high and fine quality of man's nature, just this disinterested love of a free play of the mind on all subjects, for its own sake...
Strona 6 - The notion of the free play of the mind upon all subjects being a pleasure in itself, being an object of desire, being an essential provider of elements without which a nation's spirit, whatever compensations it may have for them, must, in the long run, die of inanition, hardly enters into an Englishman's thoughts.
Strona 138 - He, that ever following her commands, On with toil of heart and knees and hands, Thro' the long gorge to the far light has won His path upward, and prevail'd, Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled Are close upon the shining table-lands To which our God Himself is moon and sun.
Strona 7 - I say the critic must keep out of the region of immediate practice in the political, social, humanitarian sphere...
Strona 5 - ... to give the happy sense of difficulty overcome; but, in general, plenty of bustle and very little thought. To act is so easy, as Goethe says; to think is so hard...
Strona 142 - And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
Strona 7 - It obeys an instinct prompting it to try to know the best that is known and thought in the world, irrespectively of practice, politics, and everything of the kind...