The Uses of Biography: Romantic, Philosophic, and DidacticPartridge and Oakey, 1852 - 210페이지 |
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... sense of their individual value , of their own proper power . Indeed , in civilized society we note two classes of men . One may be described as seals formed and made to stamp themselves upon men , institutions , and things . Another ...
... sense of their individual value , of their own proper power . Indeed , in civilized society we note two classes of men . One may be described as seals formed and made to stamp themselves upon men , institutions , and things . Another ...
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... sense , many hum- bler lives than those of warriors and emperors are historic . Did Charlemagne strike out a more extensive range of conquests than Watts ? Did Rhodolph of Hapsburg found a mightier empire than John Faust ? Did Napoleon ...
... sense , many hum- bler lives than those of warriors and emperors are historic . Did Charlemagne strike out a more extensive range of conquests than Watts ? Did Rhodolph of Hapsburg found a mightier empire than John Faust ? Did Napoleon ...
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... sense of the word , a great man - a man of ideas . He himself struck a blow at the spirit of the middle ages , and he prepared the way for the most daring attacks upon the reign of perpetual despotism . Names of this order represent ...
... sense of the word , a great man - a man of ideas . He himself struck a blow at the spirit of the middle ages , and he prepared the way for the most daring attacks upon the reign of perpetual despotism . Names of this order represent ...
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... sense , yes ; because the universal demand would imply the power of reci- procity , and the wonderful advance of the race to that point when such men would cease to be so extraordinary as they are now : but , in the true sense , no ...
... sense , yes ; because the universal demand would imply the power of reci- procity , and the wonderful advance of the race to that point when such men would cease to be so extraordinary as they are now : but , in the true sense , no ...
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... sense of duty , which is the basis of all real character : while some are merely the weather - vanes of impulse and emotion , a life according to law is ever the same : these are the most healthful biographies ; usually in them there is ...
... sense of duty , which is the basis of all real character : while some are merely the weather - vanes of impulse and emotion , a life according to law is ever the same : these are the most healthful biographies ; usually in them there is ...
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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.