The Uses of Biography: Romantic, Philosophic, and DidacticPartridge and Oakey, 1852 - 210페이지 |
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... frequently , more than we could possibly gain if the hero of it were alive to converse with us . All that we see of the living man is animal ; the written life , the published letters , the journal , the conversation , frequently admit ...
... frequently , more than we could possibly gain if the hero of it were alive to converse with us . All that we see of the living man is animal ; the written life , the published letters , the journal , the conversation , frequently admit ...
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... frequently in a hermitage ; he derives his wisdom from self - knowledge and com- munion . We know little of Plato , but that little is not interesting from its important action ; and Kant , the philosopher of Konigsburg , is said never ...
... frequently in a hermitage ; he derives his wisdom from self - knowledge and com- munion . We know little of Plato , but that little is not interesting from its important action ; and Kant , the philosopher of Konigsburg , is said never ...
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... frequently hang the glory , or the ruin of an empire , or state . Such men are frequently put down as absurd theorists , because , as one has said , ' they will not halt until the boys come up to them ; they prepare public opinion ...
... frequently hang the glory , or the ruin of an empire , or state . Such men are frequently put down as absurd theorists , because , as one has said , ' they will not halt until the boys come up to them ; they prepare public opinion ...
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... frequently remorseless dishonesty . Is there not a likeness between the features of Demosthenes , Lorenzo de Medeci , Napoleon , and Lord Clive ? The like- ness is not empirical ; it is the resemblance of powerful and versatile minds ...
... frequently remorseless dishonesty . Is there not a likeness between the features of Demosthenes , Lorenzo de Medeci , Napoleon , and Lord Clive ? The like- ness is not empirical ; it is the resemblance of powerful and versatile minds ...
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... frequently enables us to understand it better ; the description is very often something between the reader and an abstraction ; the qualities of men are brought home to us by their association with sen- sible objects ; minute touches ...
... frequently enables us to understand it better ; the description is very often something between the reader and an abstraction ; the qualities of men are brought home to us by their association with sen- sible objects ; minute touches ...
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179 페이지 - Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.
96 페이지 - ... passage in a ship bound for America, and, at the same time, paid the captain for my freight and all the other expenses of my voyage. But it so happened that the wind did not answer for three weeks ; and you know, mother, that I could not command the elements. My misfortune was, that, when the wind served, I happened to be with a party in the country, and my friend, the captain, never inquired after me, but set sail with as much indifference as if I had been on board.
179 페이지 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
179 페이지 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon.
24 페이지 - Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring : no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.
179 페이지 - Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?
198 페이지 - I am come because you have been here many days shut up in a dark room, and no one dares to come near you. Are you not ashamed to grieve in this manner, when you ought to be thanking God for having given you the most beautiful child that ever was seen...
154 페이지 - According to my state of mind I am with Achilles shouting in the Trenches, or with Theocritus in the Vales of Sicily. Or I throw my whole being into Troilus, and repeating those lines, 'I wander, like a lost Soul upon the Stygian Banks staying for waftage,' I melt into the air with a voluptuousness so delicate that I am content to be alone.
200 페이지 - No. Let us save ourselves, then. All else was swallowed up in one grand ruin. To make the best of our misfortune, we availed ourselves of the light from the ship to steer a tolerably good course towards the shore. She continued to burn till about midnight, when the saltpetre...
154 페이지 - The roaring of the wind is my wife and the Stars through the window pane are my Children.