Miscellaneous Essays: Impressions of Theophhch; The Veil Lifted; Brother Jacob; Biographical Introduction by Esther Wood, Volume 11Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901 - 510 pages |
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... mental state . Now , this disruption of lan- guage from genuine thought and feeling is what we are con- stantly detecting in Young ; and his insincerity is the more likely to betray him into absurdity , because he habitually treats of ...
... mental state . Now , this disruption of lan- guage from genuine thought and feeling is what we are con- stantly detecting in Young ; and his insincerity is the more likely to betray him into absurdity , because he habitually treats of ...
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... mental development , has one evidence in the fact that we do not find it in boys at all in proportion to their manifestation of other powers . Clever boys generally aspire to the heroic and poetic rather than the comic , and the crudest ...
... mental development , has one evidence in the fact that we do not find it in boys at all in proportion to their manifestation of other powers . Clever boys generally aspire to the heroic and poetic rather than the comic , and the crudest ...
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... and irresist- ible force of wit . Wit is an electric shock , which takes us by violence , quite independently of our predominant mental - disposition ; but humor approaches us more deliberately and leaves GERMAN WIT : HEINRICH HEINE . 65.
... and irresist- ible force of wit . Wit is an electric shock , which takes us by violence , quite independently of our predominant mental - disposition ; but humor approaches us more deliberately and leaves GERMAN WIT : HEINRICH HEINE . 65.
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... and polished playfulness of the man , as we believe that racy wit and chastened delicate humor are inevitably the results of invigorated and refined mental activity , we can also believe that Germany will , GERMAN WIT : HEINRICH HEINE . 69.
... and polished playfulness of the man , as we believe that racy wit and chastened delicate humor are inevitably the results of invigorated and refined mental activity , we can also believe that Germany will , GERMAN WIT : HEINRICH HEINE . 69.
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... mental arithmetic ! - heavens ! my head is still dizzy with it — all must be learned by heart ! And a great deal of this came very conveniently for me in after life . For if I had not known the Roman kings by heart , it would ...
... mental arithmetic ! - heavens ! my head is still dizzy with it — all must be learned by heart ! And a great deal of this came very conveniently for me in after life . For if I had not known the Roman kings by heart , it would ...
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Page 138 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 128 - Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment?
Page 423 - I say the truth in Christ; I lie not, (my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,) that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh...
Page 133 - Christian gives to the poor, not only because he has sensibilities like other men, but because inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me.
Page 58 - The cattle mourn in corners where the fence Screens them, and seem half petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness.
Page 45 - Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free From real life ; but little more remote Is he, not yet a candidate for light, The future embryo, slumbering in his sire. Embryos we must be till we burst the shell, • . Yon ambient azure shell, and spring to life, The life of gods, O transport ! and of man.
Page 61 - Is merely as the working of a sea Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest : For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds The dust that waits upon His sultry march, When sin hath moved Him, and His wrath is hot, Shall visit earth in mercy ; shall descend Propitious in His chariot paved with love : And what His storms have blasted and defaced For man's revolt, shall with a smile repair.
Page 61 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, * Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !* The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain-tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Page 42 - Here is firm footing ; here is solid rock ! This can support us ; all is sea besides ; Sinks under us ; bestorms, and then devours. His hand the good man fastens on the skies, And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl.
Page 423 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises ; whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.