 Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling: that this ennobled lemur, this hair-crowned bubble of the dust, this inheritor of a few years and sorrows, should yet deny himself his rare delights, and add to his frequent pains,...  Philosophy and Life: And Other Essays - Page 38by John Henry Muirhead - 1902 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1901 - 344 pages
...ooosolin^ : that this en^obkd kin-sr, this hair-ammed babble of the dost, this inheritor of a few rears and sorrows, should yet deny himself his rare delights,...ideal, however misconceived. Nor can we stop with man. A new doctrine, received with screams a little while ago by canting moralists, and still not properly... | |
 | 1902 - 848 pages
...man has yet aspirations and imperfect virtues. "Of all earth's meteors," he says, "here, at least, is the most strange and consoling; that this ennobled...pains and live for an ideal, however misconceived." This view implies his sympathy with the publican as against the Pharisee. We should cherish whatever... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 510 pages
...man has yet aspirations and imperfect virtues. " Of all earth's meteors," he says, " here, at least, is the most strange and consoling; that this ennobled...pains and live for an ideal, however misconceived." This view implies his sympathy with the publican as against the Pharisee. We should cherish whatever... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 216 pages
...the desire of good is at their heels, the implacable hunter. Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most ' strange and consoling : that this ennobled...his frequent pains, and live for an ideal, however miscQnfieived. Nor can we stop with man. A new doctrine, received with screams a little while ago by... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1908 - 218 pages
...the desire of good is at their heels, the implacable hunter. Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling: that this ennobled...ideal, however misconceived. Nor can we stop with man. A new doctrine, received with screams a little while ago by canting moralists, and still not properly... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1909 - 448 pages
...reverberation of a blazing world, ninety million miles away. ... Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling : that this ennobled...ideal, however misconceived. Nor can we stop with man. . . . Rather this desire of well-being and this doom of frailty run through all the grades of life.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1911 - 488 pages
...Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoKng: that thi.c ennobled lemur,1 this haircrowned bubble of the dust, this inheritor...ideal, however misconceived. Nor can we stop with man. A new doctrine,2 received with screams a little while ago by canting moralists, and still not properly... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 420 pages
...the desire of good is at their heels, the implacable hunter. Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling: that. this ennobled...ideal, however misconceived. Nor can we stop with man. A new doctrine, received with screams a little while ago by canting moralists, and still not properly... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 372 pages
...the desire of good is at their heels, the implacable hunter. Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling: that this ennobled...ideal, however misconceived. Nor can we stop with man. He stands no longer like a thing apart. Close at his heels we see the dog, prince of another genus;... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 pages
...the desire of good is at their heels, the implacable hunter. Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling: that this ennobled...should yet deny himself his rare delights, and add to bis frequent pains, and live for an ideal, however misconceived. Nor can we stop with man. He stands... | |
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