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Página 152
It is true that this would not be a very comfortable world to live in , if it became a
general rule never to think well of any one unless the impossibility of our being
mistaken was first mathematically demonstrated ; il est plus honteux de se défier
de ...
It is true that this would not be a very comfortable world to live in , if it became a
general rule never to think well of any one unless the impossibility of our being
mistaken was first mathematically demonstrated ; il est plus honteux de se défier
de ...
Página 183
cried the excited milkman , “ true to my Philomela I remain , as I said in one of my
own poems :Tho ' all the world ' gainst us combine , Still , Philomela , I am thine . '
Shall I read to you a little production of mine ? ” " Indeed , " said Tom , “ I am ...
cried the excited milkman , “ true to my Philomela I remain , as I said in one of my
own poems :Tho ' all the world ' gainst us combine , Still , Philomela , I am thine . '
Shall I read to you a little production of mine ? ” " Indeed , " said Tom , “ I am ...
Página 379
Ada , I cannot lull you into a false security , — what I have said is but too true ; but
should my life be the price of my temerity , still can I not leave you without
acquainting you of my intended plans . - - Ada , oft hast thou asked me of my birth
, but ...
Ada , I cannot lull you into a false security , — what I have said is but too true ; but
should my life be the price of my temerity , still can I not leave you without
acquainting you of my intended plans . - - Ada , oft hast thou asked me of my birth
, but ...
Página 497
They are true to themselves , and they contain many absolute truths ; but still they
are false , if measured by the standard of actuality . The imaginative spirit of the
time , and its peculiar tendency , rendered the audience ripe to receive them .
They are true to themselves , and they contain many absolute truths ; but still they
are false , if measured by the standard of actuality . The imaginative spirit of the
time , and its peculiar tendency , rendered the audience ripe to receive them .
Página 549
... would be an insult to of human nature ; and his masterly him or any other man
of true intellecdissection of the moral nature does tual power ; but we speak that
which is not leave nearly so elevating a feeling true , and can be demonstrated .
... would be an insult to of human nature ; and his masterly him or any other man
of true intellecdissection of the moral nature does tual power ; but we speak that
which is not leave nearly so elevating a feeling true , and can be demonstrated .
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Página 474 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Página 486 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 117 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Página 198 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Página 485 - 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.
Página 202 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 487 - 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. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Página 203 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Página 202 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página 168 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.