 | Thomas De Quincey - 1907 - 174 lehte
...the last. For my own part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher: from my birth I was made an intellectual creature : ana intellectual in the highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1907 - 814 lehte
...For my own part," he says, " without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm that my life has been on the whole the life of a philosopher. From my birth I was made aYi intellectual creature, and intellectual in the highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1911 - 428 lehte
...content to the end, perhaps, to ponder, to wonder, to analyse, and to dream. " From my birth," he said, " I was made an intellectual creature, and intellectual...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been." The statement may be easily misunderstood. If by an intellectual creature is meant a nature compact... | |
 | 1919 - 262 lehte
...of the beauties of Nature said: "I see, not feel, how beautiful they are," and De Quincey wrote: " From my birth I was made an intellectual creature, and intellectual in the highest sense my pursuits andpl easures have been." To look upon life as a child before it has applied thought to experience,... | |
 | Hansjörg Bay, Kai Merten - 2006 - 674 lehte
...Wordsworths intuitivem Natur-Primitivismus die eines Intellektuellen: I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher: from my birth...highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days. (30) Die Bestimmung („from my birth") und Integrität („on the whole")... | |
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I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher: from my birth I was made an intellectual creature : and intellectual in the highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days. 
