Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric and Journalism of the University of Michigan |
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... human nature . The first creature of God , in the works of the days , was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumi- nation of his Spirit . First he breathed light upon the ...
... human nature . The first creature of God , in the works of the days , was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumi- nation of his Spirit . First he breathed light upon the ...
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... Human Action . He was not a philosopher , nor an original thinker of any sort . In the strictest sense , he was a " man of letters , " one who , compelled by circumstances , wrote for bread , not one who was impelled to expression by an ...
... Human Action . He was not a philosopher , nor an original thinker of any sort . In the strictest sense , he was a " man of letters , " one who , compelled by circumstances , wrote for bread , not one who was impelled to expression by an ...
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... humanity . I walked over " the vine - covered hills and gay regions of France , " erect and satisfied ; for the image of man was not cast down and chained to the foot of arbitrary thrones . I was at no loss for language , for that of ...
... humanity . I walked over " the vine - covered hills and gay regions of France , " erect and satisfied ; for the image of man was not cast down and chained to the foot of arbitrary thrones . I was at no loss for language , for that of ...
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... human in- firmities and passions . A sort of melancholy grandeur invested him . From some inexplicable doom I fancied him obliged to go about in an eternal suit of mourning , a captive , a stately being , let out of the Tower on Satur ...
... human in- firmities and passions . A sort of melancholy grandeur invested him . From some inexplicable doom I fancied him obliged to go about in an eternal suit of mourning , a captive , a stately being , let out of the Tower on Satur ...
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... human learning , their detestation of polite amusements , were indeed fair game for the laughers . But it is not from the laughers alone that the philosophy of history is to be learnt . And he who approaches this subject should ...
... human learning , their detestation of polite amusements , were indeed fair game for the laughers . But it is not from the laughers alone that the philosophy of history is to be learnt . And he who approaches this subject should ...
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Page 2 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Page 72 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Page 123 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...
Page 124 - ... because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise Designation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...
Page 89 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Page 64 - Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Page 140 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Page 67 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 65 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Page 130 - Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion and prejudice and tradition and delusion and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake...