Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American ScholarMacmillan, 1912 - 275 頁 |
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第 xv 頁
... strong individuality , he was met by his share of animosity , but it was noticeable that the opposition was always aimed at his utterances , and that all honored and loved the man . Differences of opinion grew - fewer and less ...
... strong individuality , he was met by his share of animosity , but it was noticeable that the opposition was always aimed at his utterances , and that all honored and loved the man . Differences of opinion grew - fewer and less ...
第 xviii 頁
... strong , and eloquent . In the well - known phrase of Ben Jonson , " his words are rammed with thought . " He would often press the thought of a lecture into the compass of a sentence . From the platform this power , coupled with his ...
... strong , and eloquent . In the well - known phrase of Ben Jonson , " his words are rammed with thought . " He would often press the thought of a lecture into the compass of a sentence . From the platform this power , coupled with his ...
第 10 頁
... strong type : Saladin , Sapor , ° the Cid , ° Julius Cæsar , Scipio , Alexander , ° Pericles , and the lord- liest personages . They sat very carelessly in their chairs , and were too excellent themselves to value any condition at a ...
... strong type : Saladin , Sapor , ° the Cid , ° Julius Cæsar , Scipio , Alexander , ° Pericles , and the lord- liest personages . They sat very carelessly in their chairs , and were too excellent themselves to value any condition at a ...
第 11 頁
... strong men usually give some allowance even to the petulances of fashion , for 30 that affinity they find in it . Napoleon , child of the revolu- tion , destroyer of the old noblesse , never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain ...
... strong men usually give some allowance even to the petulances of fashion , for 30 that affinity they find in it . Napoleon , child of the revolu- tion , destroyer of the old noblesse , never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain ...
第 12 頁
... strong hand , and kill them , at once a new class finds itself at the top , as certainly as cream rises in a bowl of milk : and if the people should destroy class after class , until two men only were left , one of these would be 12 ESSAYS.
... strong hand , and kill them , at once a new class finds itself at the top , as certainly as cream rises in a bowl of milk : and if the people should destroy class after class , until two men only were left , one of these would be 12 ESSAYS.
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第 65 頁 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
第 207 頁 - We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.
第 66 頁 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
第 73 頁 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
第 185 頁 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
第 68 頁 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
第 66 頁 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
第 196 頁 - The mind now thinks, now acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended and books are a weariness — he has always the resource to live.
第 68 頁 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
第 191 頁 - They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.