Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays for First-year Students Selected by the Department of Rhetoric and Journalism of the University of MichiganHarcourt, Brace, 1923 - 407 頁 |
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... believe , but to weigh and consider . Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is , some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read but cursorily , and some few to ...
... believe , but to weigh and consider . Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is , some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read but cursorily , and some few to ...
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... believe to have been the character of the Puritans . We perceive the absurdity of their manners . We dislike the sullen gloom of their domestic habits . We acknowledge that the tone of their mind was often injured by straining after ...
... believe to have been the character of the Puritans . We perceive the absurdity of their manners . We dislike the sullen gloom of their domestic habits . We acknowledge that the tone of their mind was often injured by straining after ...
第 65 頁
... great , but by actions , by feelings , by a history which were great ! His Koran has become a stupid piece of prolix absurdity ; we do not believe , like him , that God wrote that ! The Great Man here too , as always , is a Shakespeare 65.
... great , but by actions , by feelings , by a history which were great ! His Koran has become a stupid piece of prolix absurdity ; we do not believe , like him , that God wrote that ! The Great Man here too , as always , is a Shakespeare 65.
第 69 頁
... believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the ...
... believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the ...
第 83 頁
... believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence , then , this worship of the past ? The centuries are ...
... believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence , then , this worship of the past ? The centuries are ...
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American athletic Bandar-log battles of Salamis beautiful become better bitter beer character CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY company of heroes discipline English experience eyes fact faith feel FRANCIS BACON friendship girl give Greek hand heart honor hour human idea ideal idol imagination intel intellectual interest keep kind knowledge language learned less light live look man's matter means ment mind moral Nancy Hanks nation nature ness never night noble Olive Schreiner peace perhaps person play pleasure poet poetic poetry practical Puritans religion seems sense Shakespeare social sorbed sort soul speak spirit stand student sure taste teachers tell things thou thought tion true truth undergraduate virtue whole WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE woman women words worship WU TINGFANG
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第 12 頁 - A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
第 147 頁 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
第 1 頁 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
第 136 頁 - Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion and prejudice and tradition and delusion and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake...
第 129 頁 - It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
第 1 頁 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
第 4 頁 - ... and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness; and, even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever, in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.
第 2 頁 - Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and therefore, if a man write little he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
第 28 頁 - ... owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, "that would be foolish, indeed.
第 76 頁 - the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation.