Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse TheoreonJames Munroe, 1849 - 236 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 13
Página 41
... considering , the whole life appears to be shut up in the one unpropitious affection . Yet human nature , if fairly treated , is too large a thing to be suppressed into de- spair by one affection , however potent . We might imagine that ...
... considering , the whole life appears to be shut up in the one unpropitious affection . Yet human nature , if fairly treated , is too large a thing to be suppressed into de- spair by one affection , however potent . We might imagine that ...
Página 47
... considering man as amenable only to the dictates of his understanding and his conscience , and not " excusable from the temptations and frailty of human ignorance and " passion . The mixing up of religion and morality together , or the ...
... considering man as amenable only to the dictates of his understanding and his conscience , and not " excusable from the temptations and frailty of human ignorance and " passion . The mixing up of religion and morality together , or the ...
Página 77
... those who have to feel and suffer most . Add courage to this openness we have been considering and you have a man who can own himself in the wrong , can forgive , can trust , can adventure , can , in short , GREATNESS . 77.
... those who have to feel and suffer most . Add courage to this openness we have been considering and you have a man who can own himself in the wrong , can forgive , can trust , can adventure , can , in short , GREATNESS . 77.
Página 95
... considering the subject of fiction , the responsibility of the writers thereof is a mat- ter worth pointing out . We see clearly enough that historians are to be limited by facts and probabilities ; but we are apt to make a large ...
... considering the subject of fiction , the responsibility of the writers thereof is a mat- ter worth pointing out . We see clearly enough that historians are to be limited by facts and probabilities ; but we are apt to make a large ...
Página 122
... considering the knowledge and discipline that there is in any course that a man may take . And it is still more absurd to be constantly showing the people fretted over , that you are fretting over them . I think a good deal of what you ...
... considering the knowledge and discipline that there is in any course that a man may take . And it is still more absurd to be constantly showing the people fretted over , that you are fretting over them . I think a good deal of what you ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourses Thereon, Volume 2 Sir Arthur Helps Visualização integral - 1872 |
Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Theoreon Sir Arthur Helps Visualização integral - 1849 |
Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Theoreon ... Sir Arthur Helps Visualização integral - 1853 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
affections agree amongst amusing aphorism beautiful better biped character child conformity corn laws Count Rumford courage course creatures cultivation dare say delight despair drances dulness DUNSFORD ELLESMERE essay evil expect facts false fancy fear feel fiction friends give GOETHE happy hear heart historian human imagine instance intellectual JAMES MUNROE JEAN PAUL RICHTER kind Lady Jane Grey least less live look man's MARY HOWITT matter mean men's ments merit MILVERTON mind mischief mode moral nation nature neglect never opinions perhaps person pleasure poplar present Price 50 cents public improve pursuits question RALPH WALDO EMERSON Rasselas recreation regards remorse rience Rollo Schiller simile soul suffer suppose sure sympathy Tacitus talk taste tell temper things thought tion Translated truth unreasonable vanity volume wise women word writing young England
Passagens conhecidas
Página 70 - ... there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God; such a melody to the ear, as the whole world, well understood, would afford the understanding.
Página 40 - To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
Página 42 - Still various, and inconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...
Página 40 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Página 227 - All this long eve, so balmy and serene, Have I been gazing on the western sky, And its peculiar tint of yellow green: And still I gaze — and with how blank an eye! And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give away their motion to the stars; Those stars, that glide behind them or between, Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen: Yon crescent moon, as fixed as if it grew In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue; 1 see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel, how beautiful...
Página 189 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Página 39 - Man can do no other. In this wild element of a Life, he has to struggle onwards; now fallen, deep-abased; and ever, with tears, repentance, with bleeding heart, he has to rise again, struggle again still onwards. That his struggle be a faithful unconquerable one : that is the question of questions.
Página 39 - Struggle often baffled, sore baffled, down as into entire wreck ; yet a struggle never ended ; ever, with tears, repentance, true unconquerable purpose, begun anew. Poor human nature ! Is not a man's walking, in truth, always that : ' a succession of falls
Página 49 - These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet.