English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of the Art of WritingFrederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott |
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... living in the world , —as invalids and the insane pay a high board . Their virtues are 10 penances . I do not wish to expiate , but to live . My life is not an apology , but a life . It is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much ...
... living in the world , —as invalids and the insane pay a high board . Their virtues are 10 penances . I do not wish to expiate , but to live . My life is not an apology , but a life . It is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much ...
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... living ; and on the whole , I had nothing animate to care for , in a childish way , but myself , some nests of ants , which the gardener would never leave undis- turbed for me , and a sociable bird or two ; though I never had the sense ...
... living ; and on the whole , I had nothing animate to care for , in a childish way , but myself , some nests of ants , which the gardener would never leave undis- turbed for me , and a sociable bird or two ; though I never had the sense ...
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... living , when life must be passed in this manner . I generally answered to myself , that I did not think I could possibly bear it beyond a year . When , however , not more than half that 25 duration of time had elasped , a small ray of ...
... living , when life must be passed in this manner . I generally answered to myself , that I did not think I could possibly bear it beyond a year . When , however , not more than half that 25 duration of time had elasped , a small ray of ...
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... living together , as we have done , now and then indulge themselves 25 in a cheap luxury , which both like ; while each apologises , and is willing to take both halves of the blame to his single share . I see no harm in people making ...
... living together , as we have done , now and then indulge themselves 25 in a cheap luxury , which both like ; while each apologises , and is willing to take both halves of the blame to his single share . I see no harm in people making ...
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... living rather upon his neighbours all around him . He has opinions , religious , political and literary , and , for a boy , is very positive in them and sure about them ; but he gets them from his school- fellows , or his masters , or ...
... living rather upon his neighbours all around him . He has opinions , religious , political and literary , and , for a boy , is very positive in them and sure about them ; but he gets them from his school- fellows , or his masters , or ...
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Page 50 - ... whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind ; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of...
Page 8 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Page 50 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Page 1 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.
Page 2 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Page 4 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Page 6 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 33 - ... Yet well I ken the banks where Amaranths blow, Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow. Bloom, O ye Amaranths ! bloom for whom ye may, For me ye bloom not ! Glide, rich streams, away ! With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll : And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul ? WORK WITHOUT HOPE draws nectar in a sieve, And HOPE without an object cannot live.
Page 260 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask: Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact or existence? No. Commit it then to the flames; for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Page 48 - In other words, education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways ; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.