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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... lives its life , each is called upon to live for it , to aid the attainment of the end assigned to it , to realize , as far as possible in each one of us , the ideal type , the divine thought that guides it . Law is one and the same for ...
... lives its life , each is called upon to live for it , to aid the attainment of the end assigned to it , to realize , as far as possible in each one of us , the ideal type , the divine thought that guides it . Law is one and the same for ...
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... lives according to the precepts of this religion of nature and of reason are called virtuous men of other nations , and are the children of eternal salvation . Our rabbins are so remote from Proselytomania , that they 2875 MENDELSSOHN ...
... lives according to the precepts of this religion of nature and of reason are called virtuous men of other nations , and are the children of eternal salvation . Our rabbins are so remote from Proselytomania , that they 2875 MENDELSSOHN ...
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... live according to them . We alone consider ourselves bound to acknowledge their authority ; and this can give no offense to our neighbors . Let our notions be held ever so absurd , still there is no need to cavil about them , and others ...
... live according to them . We alone consider ourselves bound to acknowledge their authority ; and this can give no offense to our neighbors . Let our notions be held ever so absurd , still there is no need to cavil about them , and others ...
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... live , uncontradicted by the future . Yes , whether considered religiously or patriotically , Jeanne d'Arc was a saint . There have been many martyrs ; history shows us numberless ones , more or less pure , more or less glorious . Pride ...
... live , uncontradicted by the future . Yes , whether considered religiously or patriotically , Jeanne d'Arc was a saint . There have been many martyrs ; history shows us numberless ones , more or less pure , more or less glorious . Pride ...
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... live as seems good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest . Though this doctrine is anything but new , and , to some per- sons , may have the air of a truism , there is no doctrine which stands more ...
... live as seems good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest . Though this doctrine is anything but new , and , to some per- sons , may have the air of a truism , there is no doctrine which stands more ...
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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
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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.