Impressions of Theophrastus SuchClassic Books, 1909 |
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... possible study of myself , with all possible effort to escape from the pitiable illusion which makes men laugh , shriek , or curl the lip at Folly's likeness , in total unconsciousness that it resembles themselves , I am obliged to ...
... possible study of myself , with all possible effort to escape from the pitiable illusion which makes men laugh , shriek , or curl the lip at Folly's likeness , in total unconsciousness that it resembles themselves , I am obliged to ...
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... possible to describe one's self at once faith- fully and fully ? In all autobiography there is , nay , ought to be , an incompleteness which may have the effect of falsity . We are each of us bound to reticence by the piety we owe to ...
... possible to describe one's self at once faith- fully and fully ? In all autobiography there is , nay , ought to be , an incompleteness which may have the effect of falsity . We are each of us bound to reticence by the piety we owe to ...
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... possible determined by that self - partiality which certainly plays a necessary part in our bodily sustenance , but has a starving effect on the mind . Thus I finally gave up any attempt to make out that I preferred cutting a bad figure ...
... possible determined by that self - partiality which certainly plays a necessary part in our bodily sustenance , but has a starving effect on the mind . Thus I finally gave up any attempt to make out that I preferred cutting a bad figure ...
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... possible for me to enjoy the scenery of the earth without saying to myself , I have a cabbage - garden in it ? But this sounds like the lunacy of fancying one's self everybody else and being unable to play one's own part decently ...
... possible for me to enjoy the scenery of the earth without saying to myself , I have a cabbage - garden in it ? But this sounds like the lunacy of fancying one's self everybody else and being unable to play one's own part decently ...
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... possible connection of certain symbolic monuments common to widely scattered races . Mer- man started up in bed . The night was cold , and the sudden withdrawal of warmth made his wife first dream of a snowball , and then cry , — " What ...
... possible connection of certain symbolic monuments common to widely scattered races . Mer- man started up in bed . The night was cold , and the sudden withdrawal of warmth made his wife first dream of a snowball , and then cry , — " What ...
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...