Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 9Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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Page 3266
... wish to acquire . Political liberty , for each individual of a society , consists in doing everything that he judges proper for his own happiness , in what does not injure others . It is the power of being happy , without doing harm to ...
... wish to acquire . Political liberty , for each individual of a society , consists in doing everything that he judges proper for his own happiness , in what does not injure others . It is the power of being happy , without doing harm to ...
Page 3272
... wish to cause virtue to be adopted because it is useful ; we must cause it to be cherished , because it is amiable ; it belongs to those who possess it , to know 3272 MADAME ROLAND The Gift of Silence Virtue an Inspiration.
... wish to cause virtue to be adopted because it is useful ; we must cause it to be cherished , because it is amiable ; it belongs to those who possess it , to know 3272 MADAME ROLAND The Gift of Silence Virtue an Inspiration.
Page 3305
... wish for his king- dom , don't pray for it . But if you do , you must do more than pray for it ; you must work for it . And , to work for it , you must know what it is : we have all prayed for it many a day without thinking . Observe ...
... wish for his king- dom , don't pray for it . But if you do , you must do more than pray for it ; you must work for it . And , to work for it , you must know what it is : we have all prayed for it many a day without thinking . Observe ...
Page 3324
... of this son all his wishes , all his affectionate and worldly predi- lections tended . And whether Viceroy of Ireland or Secretary of State in London , he found time to write long 3324 CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE - BEUVE.
... of this son all his wishes , all his affectionate and worldly predi- lections tended . And whether Viceroy of Ireland or Secretary of State in London , he found time to write long 3324 CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE - BEUVE.
Page 3329
... wish my boy to remain here to acquire such bad habits ; for this reason , when he is fourteen I think of sending him to Paris . As I love the child dearly , and have set myself to make something good of him , as I believe he has the ...
... wish my boy to remain here to acquire such bad habits ; for this reason , when he is fourteen I think of sending him to Paris . As I love the child dearly , and have set myself to make something good of him , as I believe he has the ...
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Page 3432 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 3490 - OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three.
Page 3288 - Who saw the narrow sunbeam that came out of the south and smote upon their summits until they melted and mouldered away in a dust of blue rain? Who saw the dance of the dead clouds when the sunlight left them last night, and the west wind blew them before it like withered leaves?
Page 3437 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Page 3288 - Who saw the dance of the dead clouds where the sunlight left them last night, and the west wind blew them before it like withered leaves? All has passed unregretted as unseen; or if the apathy be ever shaken off even for an instant, it is only by what is gross, or what is extraordinary. And yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, nor in the clash of the hail, nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not...
Page 3547 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Page 3451 - How many merchants and carriers, besides, must have been employed in transporting the materials from some of those workmen to others who often live in a very distant part of the country ? How much commerce and navigation in particular, how many ship-builders, sailors, sail-makers, rope-makers, must have been employed in order to bring together the different drugs made use of by the dyer, which often come from the remotest corners of the world...
Page 3287 - IT 1s a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man — more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him, and teaching him — than in any other of her works; and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.
Page 3388 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music ; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Page 3396 - It is not that I adulate the people: Without me, there are demagogues enough, And infidels, to pull down every steeple, And set up in their stead some proper stuff. Whether they may sow scepticism to reap hell, As is the Christian dogma rather rough, I do not know; — I wish men to be free As much from mobs as kings— from you as me.