A Book of Thoughts. [Selections from English, French and German authors.] By H. A. [i.e. Henry Attwell.]Macmillan & Company, 1865 - 166 páginas |
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Página 44
... Hand kann Wahrheit mächtig noch wirken ; Bei dem Schönen allein macht das Gefäß den Ge- halt . SCHILLER . SOUL AND BODY . The body is domicilium animae , her house , abode , and stay ; and as a torch gives a better light , a sweeter ...
... Hand kann Wahrheit mächtig noch wirken ; Bei dem Schönen allein macht das Gefäß den Ge- halt . SCHILLER . SOUL AND BODY . The body is domicilium animae , her house , abode , and stay ; and as a torch gives a better light , a sweeter ...
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... of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished ; and I know of no condition in life from which it should be excluded . Of all luxuries this is cheapest and the most at hand 46 A BOOK OF THOUGHTS .
... of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished ; and I know of no condition in life from which it should be excluded . Of all luxuries this is cheapest and the most at hand 46 A BOOK OF THOUGHTS .
Página 47
H. A. Henry ATTWELL. all luxuries this is cheapest and the most at hand ; and it seems to me to be the most im- portant to those conditions where coarse labour tends to give a grossness to the mind . From the diffusion of the sense of ...
H. A. Henry ATTWELL. all luxuries this is cheapest and the most at hand ; and it seems to me to be the most im- portant to those conditions where coarse labour tends to give a grossness to the mind . From the diffusion of the sense of ...
Página 63
... with sense and in- formation , when it is refined by benevolence , and restrained by strong principle ; when it is in the hands of a man who can use and despise it who can be witty and something much better than witty PART II . 63.
... with sense and in- formation , when it is refined by benevolence , and restrained by strong principle ; when it is in the hands of a man who can use and despise it who can be witty and something much better than witty PART II . 63.
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... hand how far we may deserve the praises and approbations which the world bestows upon us : whether the actions they celebrate proceed from laudable and worthy motives ; and how far we are really possessed of the virtues which gain us ...
... hand how far we may deserve the praises and approbations which the world bestows upon us : whether the actions they celebrate proceed from laudable and worthy motives ; and how far we are really possessed of the virtues which gain us ...
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ADDISON ANTONINUS Author autres BACON beautiful BISHOP BUTLER Bogen BOOK OF THOUGHTS BRILLIANT THOUGHTS BRUYÈRE c'est character COLERIDGE CONVERSATION crimes delighted divine earth écrit ELOQUENCE EPICTETUS esprits eternity fait faith fault finite FLATTERY fool Formulas GEORGE ELIOT give GOETHE Guilt habit happy hath heart homme honey HONOUR human IMAGINATION WITHOUT TASTE IMMORTALITY infidel intellectual J. J. ROUSSEAU JEAN PAUL RICHTER JEREMY TAYLOR judgment l'âme l'esprit LA BRUYÈRE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD labour learned live Malebranche man's mérite mind modesty MONTESQUIEU moral n'est NATURAL JUSTICE naturel object parle passions perfect law perfection peut philosophy PLATO pleasure PLUTARCH PRAISING PRINCES Prostrate the Understanding qu'il qu'on RAILLERY raison reason religion reverence ROCHEFOUCAULD RUSKIN s'il SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Selected and Arranged sentiment SIR THOMAS BROWNE soul spirit tact Talent talk tantôt things THOMAS REID thou tion tout true vanity VAUVENARGUES VICTOR COUSIN virtue WHICHCOTE wisdom words καὶ
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Página 27 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 63 - ... lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.
Página 71 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
Página 119 - How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created? Are such abilities made for no purpose? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass...
Página 35 - If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
Página 119 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass: in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and, were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Página 101 - But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures, of it ; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it, in him who thus employs himself; that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible, ie form a habit of insensibility, to all moral considerations.
Página 10 - A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can- be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades in paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glaring as they would be without it.
Página 43 - Truths, of all others the most awful and interesting, are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.
Página 68 - There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.