A Book of Thoughts. [Selections from English, French and German authors.] By H. A. [i.e. Henry Attwell.] |
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Página 86
... everything that is great and worthy in human conduct must have been conceived in the imagination before it was brought into act . And many great and good designs have been formed there , which for want of power and opportunity have ...
... everything that is great and worthy in human conduct must have been conceived in the imagination before it was brought into act . And many great and good designs have been formed there , which for want of power and opportunity have ...
Página 138
... everything in order that every one may have something to say : they do not investigate too closely , for fear of wearying questions are intro- duced as if by - the - bye , and are treated with rapidity ; precision leads to elegance ...
... everything in order that every one may have something to say : they do not investigate too closely , for fear of wearying questions are intro- duced as if by - the - bye , and are treated with rapidity ; precision leads to elegance ...
Página 143
... everything ridicu- lous ; the wise man scarcely anything . CAN NOT WILL NOT . A man can do what he ought to do ; and when he says he can not he will not . It would be convenient if we made a distinction in English between having ...
... everything ridicu- lous ; the wise man scarcely anything . CAN NOT WILL NOT . A man can do what he ought to do ; and when he says he can not he will not . It would be convenient if we made a distinction in English between having ...
Página 144
... everything except to think . ( Page 43. ) NATURALNESS OF TRUTH . Truth comes home to the mind so naturally , that when we learn it for the first time , it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory . * Lit .: in order ...
... everything except to think . ( Page 43. ) NATURALNESS OF TRUTH . Truth comes home to the mind so naturally , that when we learn it for the first time , it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory . * Lit .: in order ...
Página 147
... everything en- courages men to cultivate their natural powers : without any interference therein , their education will be good . The aid of Government is not necessary to edu- cational reform : private exertion will suffice . ( Page 52 ...
... everything en- courages men to cultivate their natural powers : without any interference therein , their education will be good . The aid of Government is not necessary to edu- cational reform : private exertion will suffice . ( Page 52 ...
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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.