Impressions of Theophrastus SuchClassic Books, 1909 |
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... bear the continuous strain of difficult topics ; and also by his willingness to contribute a song whenever the same desultory charmer proposed music . Indeed his tastes were domestic enough to be- guile him into marriage when his ...
... bear the continuous strain of difficult topics ; and also by his willingness to contribute a song whenever the same desultory charmer proposed music . Indeed his tastes were domestic enough to be- guile him into marriage when his ...
Էջ 63
... bear witness to it ; and those witnesses are not always to be got hold of . But time wearing on , I perceived that the attitude of Lentu- lus towards the philosophers was essentially the same as his attitude towards the poets ; nay ...
... bear witness to it ; and those witnesses are not always to be got hold of . But time wearing on , I perceived that the attitude of Lentu- lus towards the philosophers was essentially the same as his attitude towards the poets ; nay ...
Էջ 73
... bear too hardly on each other for this common incidental frailty , or think that we rise superior to it by dropping all considerateness and deference . But there are studious , deliberate forms of insin- cerity which it is fair to be ...
... bear too hardly on each other for this common incidental frailty , or think that we rise superior to it by dropping all considerateness and deference . But there are studious , deliberate forms of insin- cerity which it is fair to be ...
Էջ 74
... bear or baboon . Considered purely as a matter of in- formation , it cannot any longer be important for us to learn that a British subject included in the last census holds Shakspere to be supreme in the presentation of character ...
... bear or baboon . Considered purely as a matter of in- formation , it cannot any longer be important for us to learn that a British subject included in the last census holds Shakspere to be supreme in the presentation of character ...
Էջ 89
... bear too great a strain from her bad temper , even though her beauty remain the same , it is clear that a man whose claims lie in his high character or high performances had need impress us very constantly with his peculiar value and ...
... bear too great a strain from her bad temper , even though her beauty remain the same , it is clear that a man whose claims lie in his high character or high performances had need impress us very constantly with his peculiar value and ...
Common terms and phrases
acquaintances admiration Adrastus agreeable ancient burlesque carry Cetacean Channel Islands Christianity consciousness desire effect egoism English expected fact father feel fellow felt flattering foreign Ganymede genius George Eliot GEORGE HENRY LEWES give Grampus habit Hebrew Hinze human ical ideas ignorant illusion imagination impression Impressions of Theophrastus insist intellectual interest Jews judgement kind knowledge known least Lentulus less living look mankind Mantrap meaning memory ment mental Merman mind mistake Mixtus modern moral motive nature neighbours ness never object observation once opinion Pepin perhaps persons poets political poor present race regard religious remark ridiculous Scintilla scorn scrupulosity seemed sense social society sort spirit subjects suppose surprise taste temper Theophrastus things thought tion Touchwood truth tulus Volvox Vorticella Walrus wish woman words worthy writing young youth
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Էջ 61 - ... particular case, as an example of the justice to be expected of the world. The companion usually allows for the bitterness of a disappointed man, and is secretly disinclined to believe that Grampus was to blame.
Էջ 70 - Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
Էջ 129 - Il ne faut point mettre un ridicule où il n'y en a point : c'est se gâter le goût, c'est corrompre son jugement et celui des autres. Mais le ridicule qui est quelque part , il faut l'y voir, l'en tirer avec grâce , et d'une manière qui plaise et qui instruise.
Էջ 253 - A significant indication of their natural rank is seen in the fact that at this moment, the leader of the Liberal party in Germany is a Jew, the leader of the Eepublican party in France is a Jew, and the head of the Conservative ministry in England is a Jew.
Էջ 238 - The eminence, the nobleness of a people, depends on its capability of being stirred by memories, and of striving for what we call spiritual ends — ends which consist not in immediate material possession, but in the satisfaction of a great feeling that animates the collective body as with one soul.
Էջ 250 - Irish need apply," parallels the sentence which for many polite persons sums up the question of Judaism — "I never didl&e.
Էջ 252 - Jew," is surely a fact to awaken admiration hi a mind capable of understanding what we may call the ideal forces in human history. And again, a varied, impartial observation of the Jews in different countries tends to the impression that they have a predominant kindliness which must have been deeply ingrained in the constitution of their race to have outlasted the ages of persecution and oppression. The concentration of their joys in domestic life has kept up in them the capacity of tenderness :...
Էջ 37 - ... barns where the old-fashioned flail once made resonant music, while the watch-dog barked at the timidly venturesome fowls making pecking raids on the outflying grain — the roofs that have looked out from among the elms and walnut-trees, or beside the yearly group of hay- and...
Էջ 38 - Nation of London." Why ? There have been many voluntary exiles in the world, and probably in the very first exodus of the patriarchal Aryans — for I am determined not to fetch my examples from races whose talk is of uncles and no fathers...