Book I. The republic of lettersMacmillan, 1917 |
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... walked to the houses of handloom weavers on the hillsides round . Born a Wesleyan , he turned , though without any formality that I know of , from chapel to church , but he was negligent of its ordi- nances , critical of the local ...
... walked to the houses of handloom weavers on the hillsides round . Born a Wesleyan , he turned , though without any formality that I know of , from chapel to church , but he was negligent of its ordi- nances , critical of the local ...
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... strongest objections to ordinary theism . I always felt the force of his distrust of " thunderings " after an hour with Carlyle . You walked away from Chelsea stirred to the depths IV . by a torrent of humour . But then 56 RECOLLECTIONS.
... strongest objections to ordinary theism . I always felt the force of his distrust of " thunderings " after an hour with Carlyle . You walked away from Chelsea stirred to the depths IV . by a torrent of humour . But then 56 RECOLLECTIONS.
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... walked in a leisurely way , and through roundabout tracks , for some four hours along the ancient green road which you know , over the high grassy downs , into old chalk pits picturesque with juniper and yew , across heaths and commons ...
... walked in a leisurely way , and through roundabout tracks , for some four hours along the ancient green road which you know , over the high grassy downs , into old chalk pits picturesque with juniper and yew , across heaths and commons ...
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... walked over to my remote fastness on the Hog's Back far away from telegrams and news , in the beginning of September 1870. For two or three hours we discussed books , ideas , philosophic intimates . On parting , as we sauntered up the ...
... walked over to my remote fastness on the Hog's Back far away from telegrams and news , in the beginning of September 1870. For two or three hours we discussed books , ideas , philosophic intimates . On parting , as we sauntered up the ...
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... walked together to the door of the Reform Club . " You look a little pensive , " I said . " Yes , " he replied , " I was thinking - I have plenty to think of . Well , we're out - you're in . " " Yes , we're in for three months : then we ...
... walked together to the door of the Reform Club . " You look a little pensive , " I said . " Yes , " he replied , " I was thinking - I have plenty to think of . Well , we're out - you're in . " " Yes , we're in for three months : then we ...
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Էջ 258 - O, that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come ! But it sufficeth, that the day will end, And then the end is known.
Էջ 110 - ... whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Էջ 275 - Of others' sight familiar were to hers. And this the world calls frenzy; but the wise Have a far deeper madness, and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift; What is it but the telescope of truth? Which strips the distance of its fantasies, And brings life near in utter nakedness, Making the cold reality too real!
Էջ 28 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Էջ 68 - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result; and whose members have, for their proper outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another.
Էջ 321 - The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes.
Էջ 18 - ... the success of evil, physical pain, mental anguish, the prevalence and intensity of sin, the pervading idolatries, the corruptions, the dreary hopeless irreligion, that condition of the whole race, so fearfully yet exactly described in the Apostle's words, " having no hope and without God in the world...
Էջ 110 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their...
Էջ 99 - I might admit all this — and it would be not the less true that Rousseau's genius has sent that electric thrill through my intellectual and moral frame which has awakened me to new perceptions, which has made man and nature a fresh world of thought and feeling to me — and this not by teaching me any new belief.
Էջ 332 - ... unlimited submission. Speaking a language that is despised, professing a religion that is abhorred, and being disarmed, the poor find themselves in many cases slaves even in the bosom of written liberty.