Musings Without Method: A Record of 1900-01W. Blackwood and Sons, 1902 - 323 pagini |
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... human optimism ; yet it is a policy which threatens to become a part of our national life . Already there are few defaulters in the field of fiction . The rare ones that have not joined what is called " the ranks of our imaginative ...
... human optimism ; yet it is a policy which threatens to become a part of our national life . Already there are few defaulters in the field of fiction . The rare ones that have not joined what is called " the ranks of our imaginative ...
Pagina 5
... human ingenuity . But we have no right to know who belonged to it , and who were the most assiduous attendants at its groaning board . Nor can we take the smallest pleasure in the following table , which the author modestly describes as ...
... human ingenuity . But we have no right to know who belonged to it , and who were the most assiduous attendants at its groaning board . Nor can we take the smallest pleasure in the following table , which the author modestly describes as ...
Pagina 32
... human being has never boasted . No king that ever put the world beneath his conquer- ing heel has enjoyed so great a triumph as our Queen . Neither Alexander nor Cæsar subdued by the A peaceful sword so many lieges as she has attached ...
... human being has never boasted . No king that ever put the world beneath his conquer- ing heel has enjoyed so great a triumph as our Queen . Neither Alexander nor Cæsar subdued by the A peaceful sword so many lieges as she has attached ...
Pagina 43
... human race , drives the Anarchist to at- tempt reform , and for him reform means death . So narrow is his brain that he can conceive no other remedy for a trifling ill than murder : he would wipe out a spot of dust with blood , and his ...
... human race , drives the Anarchist to at- tempt reform , and for him reform means death . So narrow is his brain that he can conceive no other remedy for a trifling ill than murder : he would wipe out a spot of dust with blood , and his ...
Pagina 64
... human ( or humane ) race . We believe that he never entered a bank without a feeling of discomfort , and we know that an editor was in his regard a monster with the evil eye . And though the phases of character through which he passed ...
... human ( or humane ) race . We believe that he never entered a bank without a feeling of discomfort , and we know that an editor was in his regard a monster with the evil eye . And though the phases of character through which he passed ...
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Pagina 270 - 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...
Pagina 152 - Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.
Pagina 315 - I could not have been more delighted if I had heard the music of the spheres. Poetry and philosophy had met together. Truth and genius had embraced under the eye and with the sanction of religion.
Pagina 186 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Pagina 186 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation ; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there ; but wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there...
Pagina 171 - She appeared, in fact, to be awed, but not daunted, and afterwards the Duke of Wellington told me the same thing, and added that if she had been his own daughter he could not have desired to see her perform her part better.
Pagina 184 - To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. For myself I was never so much enticed with the glorious name of a King or royal authority of a Queen as delighted that God hath made me his instrument to maintain his truth and glory and to defend this kingdom as I said from peril, dishonour, tyranny and oppression.
Pagina 276 - In short, all the symptoms which I have ever met with in History, previous to great Changes and Revolutions in Government, now exist and daily increase in France."/ Chapter III — Viaticum.
Pagina 154 - IT was at Rome, on the 15th of October, ' 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of ' the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars ' were singing vespers in the Temple of Ju'piter that the idea of writing the Decline 'and Fall of the City first started to my 'mind.
Pagina 261 - There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his mind to make a staff. Having considered that in an imperfect work time is an ingredient, but into a perfect work time does not enter, he said to himself, It shall be perfect in all respects, though I should do nothing else in my life.