Studies in life, literature, and philosophyA. Strahan, 1865 |
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Strona 7
... practical English nature . The critic must keep out of the region of immediate practice in the political , social , humanitarian sphere , if he wants to make a beginning for that more free speculative treatment of things , which may ...
... practical English nature . The critic must keep out of the region of immediate practice in the political , social , humanitarian sphere , if he wants to make a beginning for that more free speculative treatment of things , which may ...
Strona 8
... practical necessities . One who knew him well , said , in my hearing , " Holbeach , with all your idealisms , you are the most matter - of - fact man I ever knew , and if you were to live with me long , I should shoot you for your hard ...
... practical necessities . One who knew him well , said , in my hearing , " Holbeach , with all your idealisms , you are the most matter - of - fact man I ever knew , and if you were to live with me long , I should shoot you for your hard ...
Strona 11
... citizenship . 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.
... citizenship . 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.
Strona 17
... practical , and willingly entered into all little matters of compliment and civility , when the level of the in- tercourse presupposed the need for them ; but , praise being often as unjust as blame , he liked to have it indefinite and ...
... practical , and willingly entered into all little matters of compliment and civility , when the level of the in- tercourse presupposed the need for them ; but , praise being often as unjust as blame , he liked to have it indefinite and ...
Strona 46
... practical charity forced upon them now and then . Besides this , the necessities of daily life laid as heavy a hand upon these people as upon the rest of us . They , like others , found facts too strong for their intentions . What ...
... practical charity forced upon them now and then . Besides this , the necessities of daily life laid as heavy a hand upon these people as upon the rest of us . They , like others , found facts too strong for their intentions . What ...
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Strona 173 - 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 42 - I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not stay ; I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Strona 166 - 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 167 - 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 - 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 168 - 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 172 - 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 252 - As to mental progress, except those vulgarer attainments by which vanity or ambition are promoted, there is generally an end to it in a man who marries a woman mentally his inferior ; unless, indeed, he is unhappy in marriage, or becomes indifferent. From a man of twenty-five or thirty, after he is married, an experienced observer seldom expects any further progress in mind or feelings. It is rare that the progress already made is maintained. Any spark of the mens divinior which might otherwise have...