Impressions of Theophrastus SuchClassic Books, 1909 |
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... true account of my own ? I am a bachelor , without domestic distrac- tions of any sort , and have all my life been an attentive companion to myself , flattering my nature agreeably on plausible occasions , reviling it rather bitterly ...
... true account of my own ? I am a bachelor , without domestic distrac- tions of any sort , and have all my life been an attentive companion to myself , flattering my nature agreeably on plausible occasions , reviling it rather bitterly ...
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... true that I would rather not hear either your well - founded ridicule or your judicious strictures . Though not averse to finding fault with myself , and conscious of deserving lashes , I like to keep the scourge in my own discrimin ...
... true that I would rather not hear either your well - founded ridicule or your judicious strictures . Though not averse to finding fault with myself , and conscious of deserving lashes , I like to keep the scourge in my own discrimin ...
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... true spiritual scale , and even that a day might come when some visible triumph would place me in the French heaven of having the laughers on my side . But I presently perceived that this was a very odious sort of self - cajolery . Was ...
... true spiritual scale , and even that a day might come when some visible triumph would place me in the French heaven of having the laughers on my side . But I presently perceived that this was a very odious sort of self - cajolery . Was ...
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... has hindered us from a true know- ledge of the contents . But an attention fixed on the main theme or various matter of the book would de- liver us from that slavish subjection to our own self- [ 12 ] THEOPHRASTUS SUCH.
... has hindered us from a true know- ledge of the contents . But an attention fixed on the main theme or various matter of the book would de- liver us from that slavish subjection to our own self- [ 12 ] THEOPHRASTUS SUCH.
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... true version of the golden rule , I could not wish that others should lower my spirits as I was lowering my friend's . After several times obtaining the same result from a like experiment in which all the circum- stances were varied ...
... true version of the golden rule , I could not wish that others should lower my spirits as I was lowering my friend's . After several times obtaining the same result from a like experiment in which all the circum- stances were varied ...
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...