Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse TheoreonJames Munroe, 1849 - 236 páginas |
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... temper , feel- ing all the time , perhaps , more deeply than the persons aggrieved . All these cases may be summed up in the words , " That which I would not , that I do , " the saddest of all human confessions , made by one of the ...
... temper , feel- ing all the time , perhaps , more deeply than the persons aggrieved . All these cases may be summed up in the words , " That which I would not , that I do , " the saddest of all human confessions , made by one of the ...
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... temper if others will not be good and happy in their way . MILVERTON . That is really not fair . Of course , acid , small - minded people , carry their narrow no- tions and their acidity into their benevolence . Benevolence is no ...
... temper if others will not be good and happy in their way . MILVERTON . That is really not fair . Of course , acid , small - minded people , carry their narrow no- tions and their acidity into their benevolence . Benevolence is no ...
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... men dashing at one another in war - chariots ; and evolutions of patience and temper are performed at the fire- side , worthy to be compared with the Retreat of the Ten Thousand . Men have worshipped some fantastic 104 ON THE ART OF.
... men dashing at one another in war - chariots ; and evolutions of patience and temper are performed at the fire- side , worthy to be compared with the Retreat of the Ten Thousand . Men have worshipped some fantastic 104 ON THE ART OF.
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... temper . If you would be loved as a companion , avoid unnecessary criticism upon those with whom you live . The number of people who have taken out judges ' patents for themselves is very large in any society . Now it would be hard for ...
... temper . If you would be loved as a companion , avoid unnecessary criticism upon those with whom you live . The number of people who have taken out judges ' patents for themselves is very large in any society . Now it would be hard for ...
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... tempers of our associates . And it is hardly in man to estimate justly what is familiar to him . In travelling along at night , as Hazlitt says , we catch a glimpse into cheer- ful looking rooms with light blazing in them , and we ...
... tempers of our associates . And it is hardly in man to estimate justly what is familiar to him . In travelling along at night , as Hazlitt says , we catch a glimpse into cheer- ful looking rooms with light blazing in them , and we ...
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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.