Aspects of PessimismW. Blackwood & Sons, 1894 - 337 páginas |
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... subjects which are not usually approached from a similar standpoint . Somewhat less than one - half of what is here printed has appeared before in various periodicals . Small por- tions of the first and second essays , and nearly.
... subjects which are not usually approached from a similar standpoint . Somewhat less than one - half of what is here printed has appeared before in various periodicals . Small por- tions of the first and second essays , and nearly.
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... less in fresh connections . I am much indebted also to Professors Robertson and Bradley of Glasgow , and to Professor Edward Caird , now Master of Balliol College , Oxford , for valuable suggestions regarding certain portions of the ...
... less in fresh connections . I am much indebted also to Professors Robertson and Bradley of Glasgow , and to Professor Edward Caird , now Master of Balliol College , Oxford , for valuable suggestions regarding certain portions of the ...
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... these two issues separate . Indeed , they are often prone to take account of nothing but the limitation , - a convenient course , maybe , yet none the less unfair , perhaps even ungenerous . The inner logic of its creed Jewish Pessimism .
... these two issues separate . Indeed , they are often prone to take account of nothing but the limitation , - a convenient course , maybe , yet none the less unfair , perhaps even ungenerous . The inner logic of its creed Jewish Pessimism .
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... less identification , with the talent descriptive of hell's horrors . Where Puritanism was gloomy , Judaism was joyous ; where the Saxon was cold and austere , the Semite was sentimental and broad ; where the one was calm and analytic ...
... less identification , with the talent descriptive of hell's horrors . Where Puritanism was gloomy , Judaism was joyous ; where the Saxon was cold and austere , the Semite was sentimental and broad ; where the one was calm and analytic ...
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... less degree than that of the Hellenes , being in truth a long record of ever - recurring rebellions and late repen- tances . The nation was of all others the most full of inner contradictions ; the higher and the lower self were never ...
... less degree than that of the Hellenes , being in truth a long record of ever - recurring rebellions and late repen- tances . The nation was of all others the most full of inner contradictions ; the higher and the lower self were never ...
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Página 166 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
Página 107 - I have of late , (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercises; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy , the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appeareth nothing to me, but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 107 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 113 - Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish, her election Hath seal'd thee for herself; for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing, A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks...
Página 120 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 34 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
Página 28 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Página 122 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry ; Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shall not escape calumny. ' Get thee to a nunnery; farewell: Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough, what monsters you make of them.
Página 40 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Página 124 - Dost thou come here to whine? To outface me with leaping in her grave? Be buried quick with her, and so will I: And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us, till our ground, Singeing his pate against the burning zone, Make Osan like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou.