The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, 4. köideF.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 pages |
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Page 1236
... living steadfastly and courageously the life of duty , he recognized the heaven to which he looked for the reward of all suffering . a heaven of limitless power for the weak , of limitless wisdom for the ignorant , of eternal crea ...
... living steadfastly and courageously the life of duty , he recognized the heaven to which he looked for the reward of all suffering . a heaven of limitless power for the weak , of limitless wisdom for the ignorant , of eternal crea ...
Page 1246
... living was vile , and dead a Noble ? And is this not con- trary to the legend which says that Dardanus was the son of Jupiter ( for such is the fable , which one ought not to regard whilst disputing philosophically ) ; and yet if the ...
... living was vile , and dead a Noble ? And is this not con- trary to the legend which says that Dardanus was the son of Jupiter ( for such is the fable , which one ought not to regard whilst disputing philosophically ) ; and yet if the ...
Page 1258
... living filament ? » asks the elder Darwin- « from one living filament which the great First Cause endued with animality , with the power of acquiring new parts , attended with new propensities , directed by irritations , sensations ...
... living filament ? » asks the elder Darwin- « from one living filament which the great First Cause endued with animality , with the power of acquiring new parts , attended with new propensities , directed by irritations , sensations ...
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... living spe- cies in groups subordinate to groups . Of the many twigs which flourished when the tree was a mere bush , only two or three , now grown into great branches , yet survive and bear the other branches ; so with the species ...
... living spe- cies in groups subordinate to groups . Of the many twigs which flourished when the tree was a mere bush , only two or three , now grown into great branches , yet survive and bear the other branches ; so with the species ...
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... living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity . And of the species now living very few will transmit progeny of any kind to a far distant futurity ; for the manner in which all or- ganic beings are grouped ...
... living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity . And of the species now living very few will transmit progeny of any kind to a far distant futurity ; for the manner in which all or- ganic beings are grouped ...
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Page 1615 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Page 1490 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 1398 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 1305 - Farewell to hope and to tranquil dreams, and to the blessed consolations of sleep. For more than three years and a half I am summoned away from these.
Page 1376 - And the star was shining. He grew to be a man whose hair was turning gray, and he was sitting in his chair by the fireside, heavy with grief, and with his face bedewed with tears when the star opened once again. Said his sister's angel to the leader, "Is my brother come?" And he said, "Nay, but his maiden daughter.
Page 1450 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.
Page 1490 - What Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age, in plenty and at ease, I have undertaken to translate in my declining years; struggling with wants, oppressed with sickness, curbed in my genius, liable to be misconstrued in all I write...
Page 1615 - ... which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught...
Page 1599 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Page 1616 - The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle. He has a fine Geneva watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun.