Culture and RestraintF.H. Revell, 1901 - 350 páginas |
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... looks like madness , ever meddling with the free play of human instincts , ever silencing the voice of nature , leaving a poor mutilated life . Not " Be yourself " is the watchword , but Give up , go without , renounce the natural , put ...
... looks like madness , ever meddling with the free play of human instincts , ever silencing the voice of nature , leaving a poor mutilated life . Not " Be yourself " is the watchword , but Give up , go without , renounce the natural , put ...
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... look with contempt on the Philistines ; or to the aesthetic coteries , who worship the bizarre and the uncommon , who rave about the ethical value of blue china and white plates of Nantgarw , and hold strong opinions about Botticelli ...
... look with contempt on the Philistines ; or to the aesthetic coteries , who worship the bizarre and the uncommon , who rave about the ethical value of blue china and white plates of Nantgarw , and hold strong opinions about Botticelli ...
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... look in on ourselves , able to compare the present with the past , to find out what our tastes , and temperament , and capacities , and weaknesses are . In consequence of this , we are able also to forecast to some extent what we can be ...
... look in on ourselves , able to compare the present with the past , to find out what our tastes , and temperament , and capacities , and weaknesses are . In consequence of this , we are able also to forecast to some extent what we can be ...
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... look long enough to notice form and colour , and as a result of neglect both nature and art are to a large extent sealed books to us . Indeed it may be said that of all the recognised instruments of culture the one which is most often ...
... look long enough to notice form and colour , and as a result of neglect both nature and art are to a large extent sealed books to us . Indeed it may be said that of all the recognised instruments of culture the one which is most often ...
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... look , under the drawn cap to avoid the violets , may be but the evidence of a subtler unfaith , the unfaith which would empty the world of God . The æsthetic ideal is also useful to - day as entering a caveat to all socialistic schemes ...
... look , under the drawn cap to avoid the violets , may be but the evidence of a subtler unfaith , the unfaith which would empty the world of God . The æsthetic ideal is also useful to - day as entering a caveat to all socialistic schemes ...
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Página 307 - And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Página 223 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Página 114 - Out of my grief and my impatience Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, He should, or he should not; for he made me mad To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman Of guns, and drums, and wounds, — God save the mark! — And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise...
Página 153 - Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
Página 341 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Página 174 - The Collar. I STRUCK the board, and cry'd, No more. I will abroad. What? shall I ever sigh and pine? My lines and life are free; free as the rode, Loose as the winde, as large as store.
Página 125 - I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence, and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from, but inherent in my own immaterial nature. Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree to recall myself from this abyss of idealism to the reality.
Página 175 - I have lost with cordial fruit? Sure there was wine 10 Before my sighs did dry it; there was corn Before my tears did drown it. Is the year only lost to me? Have I no bays to crown it? No flowers, no garlands gay? All blasted? All wasted?
Página 313 - And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Página 314 - But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.