Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric and Journalism of the University of MichiganHarcourt, Brace, 1924 - 428 |
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... worship of the soul . Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil , they aspired to gaze full on his intolerable bright- ness and to commune with him face to face . Hence originated their contempt for ...
... worship of the soul . Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil , they aspired to gaze full on his intolerable bright- ness and to commune with him face to face . Hence originated their contempt for ...
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... worship of eminent men and the irrational dread of innovation . That he might shake the foundations of these debasing sentiments more effectually he always selected for him- self the boldest literary services . He never came up in the ...
... worship of eminent men and the irrational dread of innovation . That he might shake the foundations of these debasing sentiments more effectually he always selected for him- self the boldest literary services . He never came up in the ...
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... worship , Past and Present , Oliver Cromwell , and History of Frederick the Great . Carlyle's style is richly various , ranging from the per- versely strident and irregular diction and movement of The French Revolution to the delicate ...
... worship , Past and Present , Oliver Cromwell , and History of Frederick the Great . Carlyle's style is richly various , ranging from the per- versely strident and irregular diction and movement of The French Revolution to the delicate ...
Strona 59
... worship as they can ! We may say without offense , that there rises a kind of universal psalm out of this ... worship ( we may call it such ) ; these other controversies , vitally important to other men , were not vital to him . But call ...
... worship as they can ! We may say without offense , that there rises a kind of universal psalm out of this ... worship ( we may call it such ) ; these other controversies , vitally important to other men , were not vital to him . But call ...
Strona 60
... worship now lies in , consider what this Shakespeare has actually become among us . Which Englishman we ever made , in this land of ours , which million of Englishmen , would we not give up rather than the Stratford peasant ? There 60 ...
... worship now lies in , consider what this Shakespeare has actually become among us . Which Englishman we ever made , in this land of ours , which million of Englishmen , would we not give up rather than the Stratford peasant ? There 60 ...
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Strona 2 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Strona 72 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Strona 123 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...
Strona 124 - ... because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise Designation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...
Strona 89 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Strona 64 - Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Strona 140 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Strona 67 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Strona 65 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Strona 130 - Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion and prejudice and tradition and delusion and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake...