The Pleasures of LifeD. Appleton, 1887 - 191 páginas |
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... perhaps be of use to others also . It is hardly necessary to say that I have not by any means referred to all the sources of happiness open to us , some indeed of the greatest pleasures and bless- ings being altogether omitted . In ...
... perhaps be of use to others also . It is hardly necessary to say that I have not by any means referred to all the sources of happiness open to us , some indeed of the greatest pleasures and bless- ings being altogether omitted . In ...
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... perhaps the most beauti- ful of his hymns , " Lead , kindly light , " says : " Keep thou my feet , I do not ask to see The distant scene ; one step enough for me . " But we must be sure that we are really following some worthy guide ...
... perhaps the most beauti- ful of his hymns , " Lead , kindly light , " says : " Keep thou my feet , I do not ask to see The distant scene ; one step enough for me . " But we must be sure that we are really following some worthy guide ...
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... perhaps , for which we ought to be more thankful than for the easier access to books . The debt we owe to books was well ex- pressed by Richard de Bury , Bishop of Dur- ham , author of Philobiblon , published as 1 Delivered at the ...
... perhaps , for which we ought to be more thankful than for the easier access to books . The debt we owe to books was well ex- pressed by Richard de Bury , Bishop of Dur- ham , author of Philobiblon , published as 1 Delivered at the ...
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... perhaps reflects the spirit of the Califs than of the Sultans , that " the ink of science is more precious than the blood of the martyrs . " Confucius is said to have described himself as a man who " in his eager pursuit of knowledge ...
... perhaps reflects the spirit of the Califs than of the Sultans , that " the ink of science is more precious than the blood of the martyrs . " Confucius is said to have described himself as a man who " in his eager pursuit of knowledge ...
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... perhaps than ever we should see for ourselves . The world itself has no limits for us ; Hum- boldt and Herschel will carry us far away to the mysterious nebulæ , far beyond the sun and even the stars ; time has no more bounds than space ...
... perhaps than ever we should see for ourselves . The world itself has no limits for us ; Hum- boldt and Herschel will carry us far away to the mysterious nebulæ , far beyond the sun and even the stars ; time has no more bounds than space ...
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Adam Bede admire Analects of Confucius Apostolic Fathers Aristotle Bacon beautiful better blessings blue bright charm cheerful choice choose Cicero colour dark David Copperfield delightful doubt duty dwell earth Emerson enjoy enjoyment Epictetus Essays evil exercise fault feel flower fortune friends friendship give glorious glory glowing greatest Greek Gulliver's Travels happy heart heaven Hesiod History of India hour human important interest Jeremy Taylor labour leisure less literature living look Macaulay Marcus Aurelius melancholy mind Molière Moreover Nature never Nibelungenlied night Novum Organum observes ourselves peace perhaps philosophers Plato pleasure possess Pride and Prejudice proverb Ramayana realise rich round Ruskin says Jeremy schools seems silent sorrow soul spirit suffer surely sweet tells things thou thought tion true wise wish wonder words Xenophon
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Página 103 - While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.
Página 140 - A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Página 102 - How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Página 41 - 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.
Página 113 - ... wherein so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it ; as if chance were fitter to be registered than observation : let diaries, therefore, be brought in use. The things to be seen and observed are, the courts of princes, especially when they give audience to ambassadors...
Página 142 - Sweet is the smile of home ; the mutual look When hearts are of each other sure ; Sweet all the joys that crowd the household nook, The haunt of all affections pure...
Página 92 - 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 179 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Página 92 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship for the most part which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go further and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...