The Debt of Civilization to Literature: An Address Delivered at the Annual Commencement of the University of Michigan, Thursday, June 28, 1883Board of regents, 1883 - 29 páginas |
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... life , who flung his wanton insult at our men of letters in foreign di- plomacies . It would have what the Englishmen call " solid comfort , " and would be what the Americans call " practical " civilization . To a large and 5.
... life , who flung his wanton insult at our men of letters in foreign di- plomacies . It would have what the Englishmen call " solid comfort , " and would be what the Americans call " practical " civilization . To a large and 5.
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... American writers , which we shall owe to one , who once in this institution filled its chair of literature . Advancing now to more direct discussion of the sub- ject , consider the inner significance , the true scope , the vast results ...
... American writers , which we shall owe to one , who once in this institution filled its chair of literature . Advancing now to more direct discussion of the sub- ject , consider the inner significance , the true scope , the vast results ...
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... America by Columbus in 1492 , and the nailing of his ninety - five theses to the church- door of Wittenberg by Luther in 1517 , almost synchronize with these dates , and illustrate the celebrated formula of Michelet , that the great ...
... America by Columbus in 1492 , and the nailing of his ninety - five theses to the church- door of Wittenberg by Luther in 1517 , almost synchronize with these dates , and illustrate the celebrated formula of Michelet , that the great ...
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... American life needs just this ministry . Our foreign critics all remind us that we are frightfully careworn , that the American physiognomy has too many dark lines under the eyes , too much corrugation of the brow , too much look of ...
... American life needs just this ministry . Our foreign critics all remind us that we are frightfully careworn , that the American physiognomy has too many dark lines under the eyes , too much corrugation of the brow , too much look of ...
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... American life into a terrible mill for grinding out what we call success . At the same time let us remind ourselves , and our foreign critics as well , that the remedy is at hand . Let us be thankful that the American nation has entered ...
... American life into a terrible mill for grinding out what we call success . At the same time let us remind ourselves , and our foreign critics as well , that the remedy is at hand . Let us be thankful that the American nation has entered ...
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Página 10 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Página 24 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Página 23 - Yea, every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, wheresoe'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.
Página 28 - The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Think ye I made this ball A field of havoc and war, Where tyrants great and tyrants small Might harry the weak and poor?
Página 29 - ... shame; Nevada! coin thy golden crags With Freedom's image and name. Up! and the dusky race That sat in darkness long,-- Be swift their feet as antelopes. And as behemoth strong. Come, East and West and North, By races, as snow-flakes, And carry my purpose forth, Which neither halts nor shakes. My will fulfilled shall be, For, in daylight or in dark, My thunderbolt has eyes to see His way home to the mark.
Página 23 - Woods ! that listen to the night-birds' singing, Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging, Have made a solemn music of the wind ! Where, like a man beloved of God, Through glooms, which never woodman trod...
Página 29 - Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.
Página 15 - The general end therefore of all the book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline...
Página 25 - Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may — As come it will for a' that — That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that ; For a
Página 20 - ... the first predecessors of the pamphlets of Milton and of Burke. Rough as they are, they express clearly enough the mingled passions which met in the revolt of the peasants ; their longing for a right rule, for plain and simple justice; their scorn of the immorality of the nobles and the infamy of the court ; their resentment at the perversion of the law to the cause of oppression.