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... philosophers , who fancy that nature is a wild beast , to be caught and stuffed and put in a glass case , will laugh at me ; I know that these same old sages have done very good things in their day and have revealed to us many ...
... philosophers , who fancy that nature is a wild beast , to be caught and stuffed and put in a glass case , will laugh at me ; I know that these same old sages have done very good things in their day and have revealed to us many ...
الصفحة 66
... philosopher ? I became a moralist , and I recollected a number of my friends who seemed to me exceedingly like sea anemones . There is a kind of people who are said to vegetate rather than to live . We have known some who are in the ...
... philosopher ? I became a moralist , and I recollected a number of my friends who seemed to me exceedingly like sea anemones . There is a kind of people who are said to vegetate rather than to live . We have known some who are in the ...
الصفحة 84
... Philosophers unfold their theory and their fact in fiction ; if a spirit oppressed with the weight of its own experience seeks rest , it pours out its experience in fiction ; if a reformer wishes to utter the cry of inspiration and ...
... Philosophers unfold their theory and their fact in fiction ; if a spirit oppressed with the weight of its own experience seeks rest , it pours out its experience in fiction ; if a reformer wishes to utter the cry of inspiration and ...
الصفحة 98
... philosopher once asked a little girl if she had a soul . She looked up into his face with an air of astonishment and offended dignity and replied , " To be sure I have . " " What makes you think you have ? " " Because I have , " she ...
... philosopher once asked a little girl if she had a soul . She looked up into his face with an air of astonishment and offended dignity and replied , " To be sure I have . " " What makes you think you have ? " " Because I have , " she ...
الصفحة 99
... philosopher astonished in his turn ; " who told you so ? " " Nobody . I should be ashamed if I did not know that , without being told . " The philosopher had puzzled his brain a great deal about the soul , but he could not have given a ...
... philosopher astonished in his turn ; " who told you so ? " " Nobody . I should be ashamed if I did not know that , without being told . " The philosopher had puzzled his brain a great deal about the soul , but he could not have given a ...
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الصفحة 232 - And fades the grass away. 3 Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone : Strange ! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long.
الصفحة 197 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
الصفحة 192 - ... -by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away.
الصفحة 194 - ... on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world. Enthusiasm had made them Stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of corruption. It sometimes might lead them to pursue unwise ends, but never to choose...
الصفحة 160 - MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
الصفحة 223 - Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity!
الصفحة 81 - You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him. It is hardly possible but the character should take a higher and better tone from the constant habit of associating in thought with a class of thinkers, to say the least of it, above the average of humanity.
الصفحة 193 - ... gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
الصفحة 81 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its Ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
الصفحة 187 - If he does not know every thing that has been done in the immeasurable ages that are past, some things may have been done by a God. Thus, unless he knows all things, that is, precludes another Deity by being one himself, he cannot know that the Being whose existence he rejects, does not exist.