EssaysJames Fraser, 1841 - 371 pages |
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... already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assist- ance of nature , it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself . What would statues of the usual ...
... already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assist- ance of nature , it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself . What would statues of the usual ...
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... already prophe- sied in the nature of Newton's mind . Not less does the brain of Davy and Gay - Lussac from childhood , exploring always the affinities and repulsions of particles , anticipate the laws of organisation . Does not the eye ...
... already prophe- sied in the nature of Newton's mind . Not less does the brain of Davy and Gay - Lussac from childhood , exploring always the affinities and repulsions of particles , anticipate the laws of organisation . Does not the eye ...
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... to which we have too long lent our eyes . Already that day exists . for us , shines in on us at unawares ; but the path of science and of letters is not the way into na- ture , but from it rather . The idiot , 4.0 ESSAY I.
... to which we have too long lent our eyes . Already that day exists . for us , shines in on us at unawares ; but the path of science and of letters is not the way into na- ture , but from it rather . The idiot , 4.0 ESSAY I.
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... and will explain your other genuine actions . Your conformity explains nothing . Act singly , and what you have already done singly will justify you now . Greatness always appeals to the future . If I can be great SELF - RELIANCE . 59.
... and will explain your other genuine actions . Your conformity explains nothing . Act singly , and what you have already done singly will justify you now . Greatness always appeals to the future . If I can be great SELF - RELIANCE . 59.
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... already . one chance , but a hundred chances . arise who shall reveal the resources of man , and tell men they are not leaning willows , but can and must detach themselves ; that with the ex- ercise of self - trust , new powers shall ...
... already . one chance , but a hundred chances . arise who shall reveal the resources of man , and tell men they are not leaning willows , but can and must detach themselves ; that with the ex- ercise of self - trust , new powers shall ...
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Page 43 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 54 - 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 86 - Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe ; the equinox he knows as little ; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind.
Page 57 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Page 63 - Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day's work; but the things of life are the same to both; the sum total of both is the same. Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue? As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed their public and renowned steps.
Page 69 - When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.
Page 49 - ... interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this.
Page 49 - The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
Page 45 - 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 125 - ... seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates and of no settled character, in which the man is imprisoned. Then there can be enlargement, and the man of to-day scarcely recognizes the man of yesterday. And such should be the outward biography of man in time, a putting off of dead circumstances day by day, as he renews his raiment day by day.