Familiar Studies of Men and Books

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Scribner, 1905 - 342 páginas
 

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Página 140 - Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Página 135 - To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Página 72 - The nappy reeks wi' mantling ream, An' sheds a heart-inspiring steam ; The luntin pipe, an' sneeshin mill, Are handed round wi' right guid will ; The cantie auld folks crackin crouse, The young anes ranting thro' the house,— My heart has been sae fain to see them, That I for joy hae barkit wi
Página 81 - The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates with the grandeur and life of the universe. He is a seer. ... he is individual ... he is complete in himself. . . . the others are as good as he, only he sees it and they do not.
Página 140 - In fact, I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make what use and get what advantage of her I can, as is usual in such cases.
Página 89 - I see that the elementary laws never apologize, (I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all...
Página 135 - It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
Página 325 - I wish he had done otherwise.' The Consistory of Geneva, 'that most perfect school of Christ that ever was on earth since the days of the Apostles,' were wont to forbid marriages on the ground of too great a disproportion in age.
Página 87 - I do not mean the smooth walks, trimm'd hedges, poseys and nightingales of the English poets, but the whole orb, with its geologic history, the kosmos, carrying fire and snow, that rolls through the illimitable areas, light as a feather, though weighing billions of tons.
Página 56 - I have been prudent and cautious to an astounding degree; I swore her, privately and solemnly, never to attempt any claim on me as a husband, even though anybody should persuade her she had such a claim, which she has not, neither during my life, nor after my death. She did all this like a good girl...

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