Speeches by Oliver Wendell HolmesLittle, Brown, 1896 - 69 páginas |
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... seemed to end a portion of our life also . There is one grave and commanding presence that you all would recognize , for his life has become a part of our common history . Who does not remember the leader of the assault at the mine of ...
... seemed to end a portion of our life also . There is one grave and commanding presence that you all would recognize , for his life has become a part of our common history . Who does not remember the leader of the assault at the mine of ...
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... seemed to depart one after another , leaving only a dumb animal power to set the teeth and to persist , — a blind belief that somewhere and at last there was rest and water . On this day , at least , we still meet and rejoice in the ...
... seemed to depart one after another , leaving only a dumb animal power to set the teeth and to persist , — a blind belief that somewhere and at last there was rest and water . On this day , at least , we still meet and rejoice in the ...
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... seemed to me un- answerable . And yet I believe there is an answer . They are the same questions that meet you in any form of prac- tical life . If a man has the soul of Sancho Panza , the world to him will be Sancho Panza's world ; but ...
... seemed to me un- answerable . And yet I believe there is an answer . They are the same questions that meet you in any form of prac- tical life . If a man has the soul of Sancho Panza , the world to him will be Sancho Panza's world ; but ...
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... seemed to me a striking circumstance , that the ablest of the agi- tators for codification , Sir James Stephen , and the origi- nator of the present mode of teaching , Mr. Langdell , start from the same premises to reach seemingly ...
... seemed to me a striking circumstance , that the ablest of the agi- tators for codification , Sir James Stephen , and the origi- nator of the present mode of teaching , Mr. Langdell , start from the same premises to reach seemingly ...
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... seemed practical to my inexperience , " The business of a lawyer is to know law . " The Professors of this Law School mean to make their students know law . They think the most practical teaching is that which takes their students to ...
... seemed practical to my inexperience , " The business of a lawyer is to know law . " The Professors of this Law School mean to make their students know law . They think the most practical teaching is that which takes their students to ...
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ambition ANSWER TO RESOLUTIONS Antietam army Bartlett battle believe Bench Beowulf Cambridge church civilization combat command comrades Court dead death deep dark grave destiny DOCTOR OF LAWS doubt duty enemy England eyes fact fate FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 12 feeling fell fight fire forgotten glory Harvard College Harvard Law School HARVARD UNIVERSITY hear heard heart honor hope ideal imagine imparted intellectual judge JUNE 25 Justice knew knowledge known Langdell lawyers learned least less lives Massachusetts master MEMORIAL DAY men's mightier monument never OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES once one's passion perhaps PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN principles Puritan regiment remember reverence sacred seemed seen SEPTEMBER 15 share silence Sir James Stephen soldier SOLDIER'S FAITH song soul speak specialists spiritual subtile sword symbol teach law things thinker Thomas Shepard thought tion UNIVERSITY WILLIAM ALLEN words wounds young
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Página 10 - But, when the days of golden dreams had perished, And even Despair was powerless to destroy; Then did I learn how existence could be cherished, Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy.
Página 10 - Sternly denied its burning wish to hasten Down to that tomb already more than mine. And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain ; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
Página 3 - I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Página 23 - If your subject is law, the roads are plain to anthropology, the science of man, to political economy, the theory of legislation, ethics, and thus by several paths to your final view of life.
Página 61 - Not of the sunlight, Not of the moonlight, Not of the starlight ! O young Mariner, Down to the haven, Call your companions, Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, Follow The Gleam.
Página 68 - But the present has a right to govern itself so far as it can; and it ought always to be remembered that historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity.
Página 25 - Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that, a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought— the...
Página 62 - War, when you are at it, is horrible and dull. It is only when time has passed that you see that its message was divine. I hope it may be long before we are called again to sit at that master's feet. But some teacher of the kind we all need. In this snug, over-safe corner of the world we need it, that we may realize that our comfortable routine is no...
Página 24 - For I say to you in all sadness of conviction, that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only, when you have worked alone — when you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man — and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken will, then only you will have achieved.