Impressions of Theophrastus SuchClassic Books, 1909 |
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... tion of beholders ; but I can now picture the amusement they had in the incongruity of my solemn face and ridiculous legs . What sort of hornpipe am I dancing now ? Thus if I laugh at you , O fellow men ! if I trace with curious ...
... tion of beholders ; but I can now picture the amusement they had in the incongruity of my solemn face and ridiculous legs . What sort of hornpipe am I dancing now ? Thus if I laugh at you , O fellow men ! if I trace with curious ...
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... tion , the measure of difference between our own judge- ments and an average standard : may there not be some corresponding correction of our personal partialities in moral theorizing ? If a squint or other ocular defect disturbs my ...
... tion , the measure of difference between our own judge- ments and an average standard : may there not be some corresponding correction of our personal partialities in moral theorizing ? If a squint or other ocular defect disturbs my ...
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... tion frequently the fair applause which their merits have wrung from some persons , and the attacks to which certain oblique motives have stimulated others . At the time when I was less free from superstition about my own power of ...
... tion frequently the fair applause which their merits have wrung from some persons , and the attacks to which certain oblique motives have stimulated others . At the time when I was less free from superstition about my own power of ...
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... tion , and will only ask my friend to use his judgement in insuring me against posthumous mistake . Thus I make myself a charter to write , and keep the pleasing , inspiring illusion of being listened to , though I may sometimes write ...
... tion , and will only ask my friend to use his judgement in insuring me against posthumous mistake . Thus I make myself a charter to write , and keep the pleasing , inspiring illusion of being listened to , though I may sometimes write ...
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... tion unless I keep alive a stronger attachment to what is near , and a power of admiring what I best know and understand . Hence this question of wishing to be rid of one's contemporaries associates itself with my filial feeling , and ...
... tion unless I keep alive a stronger attachment to what is near , and a power of admiring what I best know and understand . Hence this question of wishing to be rid of one's contemporaries associates itself with my filial feeling , 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...