Scribner's Magazine, 1. köideEdward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan Charles Scribners Sons, 1887 |
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Page 347 - Instinct is usually defined as the faculty of acting in such a way as to produce certain ends, without foresight of the ends, and without previous education in the performance.
Page 600 - Thy foot he'll not let slide, nor will He slumber that thee keeps. -Behold, he that keeps Israel, He slumbers not, nor sleeps.
Page 622 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 349 - Wby does the maiden interest the youth so that everything about her seems more important and significant than anything else in the world ? Nothing more can be said than that these are human ways, and that every creature likes its own ways, and takes to the following them as a matter of course.
Page 462 - ... of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell; but missing one at length, it wounded...
Page 357 - In all pedagogy the great thing is to strike the iron while hot, and to seize the wave of the pupil's interest in each successive subject before its ebb has come, so that knowledge may be got and a habit of skill acquired— a headway of interest, in short, secured, on which afterward the individual may float.
Page 456 - Grief's peers, — I shall go softly all my years. Yea, softly! heart of hearts unknown. Silence hath speech that passeth moan, More piercing-keen than breathed cries To such as heed, made sorrow-wise.
Page 135 - If, in a nature so harmoniously organized, there is any one trait to be singled out as characteristic, it is this — that he stood aloof from all ideology and everything fanciful. As a matter of course, Caesar was a man of passion, for without passion there is no genius ; but his passion was never stronger than he could control. He had had his season of youth, and song, love, and wine had taken joyous possession of his mind ; but with him they did not penetrate to the inmost core of his nature.
Page 349 - ... tastes good and makes him want more. If you ask him why he should want to eat more of what tastes like that, instead of revering you as a philosopher he will probably laugh at you for a fool. The connection between the savory sensation and the act it awakens is for him absolute and selbstverständlich, an " a priori synthesis" of the most perfect sort, needing no proof but its own evidence.
Page 511 - As to the project, however, which was announced in the.- newspapers of making the voyage directly from New York to Liverpool, it was, he had no hesitation in saying, perfectly chimerical, and they might as well talk of making a voyage from New York or Liverpool to the moon.