The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 8David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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... become unkind and disloyal ; and fathers and sons , not loving one an- other , lose their affection and filial duty ; and brothers , not lov- ing one another , contract irreconcilable enmities . Yea , men in general not loving one ...
... become unkind and disloyal ; and fathers and sons , not loving one an- other , lose their affection and filial duty ; and brothers , not lov- ing one another , contract irreconcilable enmities . Yea , men in general not loving one ...
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... become immediately pernicious ; they constitute , however , from their generality , the basis on which the people who entertain them have raised their system of morality and social order ; and so they have casually become of great ...
... become immediately pernicious ; they constitute , however , from their generality , the basis on which the people who entertain them have raised their system of morality and social order ; and so they have casually become of great ...
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... become national , so as to operate as powerfully on the bulk of the people as deep - rooted prejudice - there prejudice will be held almost sacred by every votary of virtue . How much more imperative , then , does this discretion become ...
... become national , so as to operate as powerfully on the bulk of the people as deep - rooted prejudice - there prejudice will be held almost sacred by every votary of virtue . How much more imperative , then , does this discretion become ...
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... become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion . Until then there is nothing for them but implicit obedience to an Akbar or a Charlemagne , if they are so fortunate as to find one . But as soon as mankind have attained ...
... become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion . Until then there is nothing for them but implicit obedience to an Akbar or a Charlemagne , if they are so fortunate as to find one . But as soon as mankind have attained ...
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... become distilled into a holy incense , rising ever from your fireside , - an offering to your household gods . Your dreams of reputation , your swift determination , your im- pulsive pride , your deep - uttered vows to win a name , have ...
... become distilled into a holy incense , rising ever from your fireside , - an offering to your household gods . Your dreams of reputation , your swift determination , your im- pulsive pride , your deep - uttered vows to win a name , have ...
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admiration ancient appear Aristotle BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR beauty better Bishop of Beauvais body born called century character Châteaubriand Christianity Cicero corruption Crito death discourse divine dream effect English essays eternal evil fantastick father fear feeling force fortune friends genius George Eliot give glory Goethe hand happiness heart heaven honor human imagine inspired intellectual John Bull judgment justice king knowledge labor Lacedæmonia language laws learned less liberty live mankind manner marriage master Mencius ment mind mixed governments Montesquieu moral nation nature never night opinion passions person Phædo philosopher Plato pleasure Plutarch poet poetry political princes principle QUINTILIAN reason religion republic River Lee Roman Rome sense society Socrates sort soul speak spirit thee things thou thought tion true truth verse virtue whole women words writing young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 2905 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 2879 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Página 2880 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Página 2914 - Oh, Sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.
Página 3209 - Mole in, Their thunder rolling From the Vatican, And cymbals glorious. Swinging uproarious In the gorgeous turrets Of Notre Dame; But thy sounds were sweeter Than the dome of Peter Flings o'er the Tiber, Pealing solemnly.
Página 2909 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Página 3207 - And oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this...
Página 2906 - ... renown over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life if it so befell him, the honour and chastity of virgin or matron.
Página 2904 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Página 3235 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.