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... higher , " in his own calling ; as David , having bravely fought a bear , was bidden to fight the Philistine giant ; or , as one of our contemporaries , who began his literary course by teaching a district school for six winters , has ...
... higher , " in his own calling ; as David , having bravely fought a bear , was bidden to fight the Philistine giant ; or , as one of our contemporaries , who began his literary course by teaching a district school for six winters , has ...
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... higher than outward , we might hope soon to see the last of dressy aristo- crats ; those ambulatory clothes - frames , whose chief end is to tie a cravat deftly ; to wear such clothes as provoke us to say , " How much better worth ...
... higher than outward , we might hope soon to see the last of dressy aristo- crats ; those ambulatory clothes - frames , whose chief end is to tie a cravat deftly ; to wear such clothes as provoke us to say , " How much better worth ...
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... - ing broadsword , if not the highest style of man , is yet a higher style , than has ever been built out of so large a proportion of any community as of Yankee- dom , and is such a style of culture as INCENTIVES TO MENTAL CULTURE . 21.
... - ing broadsword , if not the highest style of man , is yet a higher style , than has ever been built out of so large a proportion of any community as of Yankee- dom , and is such a style of culture as INCENTIVES TO MENTAL CULTURE . 21.
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... higher relations . Nothing short of thus seek- ing the fountain - head and root , can impart perpetual verdure and bloom to those flowers of knowledge which are all that his disciples can as yet appreciate . In addition to quickening ...
... higher relations . Nothing short of thus seek- ing the fountain - head and root , can impart perpetual verdure and bloom to those flowers of knowledge which are all that his disciples can as yet appreciate . In addition to quickening ...
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... higher , which they turned their backs on as soon as possible , " scorning the base degrees by which they did ascend , " and hastening from them as boys , ( before going out by instalments came into vogue , ) used to burst forth from a ...
... higher , which they turned their backs on as soon as possible , " scorning the base degrees by which they did ascend , " and hastening from them as boys , ( before going out by instalments came into vogue , ) used to burst forth from a ...
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Page 135 - To die, to sleep : To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Page 82 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Page 135 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence.
Page 136 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 29 - This operator did his office after a different manner from those of his trade in Europe. He first took my altitude by a quadrant, and then, with rule and compasses, described the dimensions and outlines of my whole body, all which he entered upon paper, and in six days brought my clothes very ill made, and quite out of shape, by happening to mistake a figure in the calculation. But my comfort was, that I observed such accidents very frequent, and little regarded.
Page 135 - And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Page 136 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 1 - Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine ; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse; but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
Page 82 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honored bones The labor of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 4 - Addison, in a subtlety of insight which often reaches farther than the subtlety of Steele, — the humor of Hawthorne presents traits so fine as to be almost too excellent for popularity, as, to every one who has attempted their criticism, they are too refined for statement. The brilliant atoms flit, hover, and glance before our minds, but the subtle sources of their ethereal light lie beyond our analysis, — "And no speed of ours avails To hunt upon their shining trails.