Literary and Social JudgmentsJ. R. Osgood, 1876 - Всего страниц: 352 |
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... Madame Necker , M. de Narbonne and Madame de Staël , Chateaubriand and Madame Recamier , * is to us a mystery and offence . Yet it is impossible to read without the deepest sympathy the description of Chateaubriand , wheeled into the ...
... Madame Necker , M. de Narbonne and Madame de Staël , Chateaubriand and Madame Recamier , * is to us a mystery and offence . Yet it is impossible to read without the deepest sympathy the description of Chateaubriand , wheeled into the ...
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... Madame Recamier , could think of nothing better to open the conversation with than the fade compliment , " Me voici entre l'esprit et la beauté . " Now Madame de Staël neither chose that she should be considered destitute of beauty nor ...
... Madame Recamier , could think of nothing better to open the conversation with than the fade compliment , " Me voici entre l'esprit et la beauté . " Now Madame de Staël neither chose that she should be considered destitute of beauty nor ...
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... Madame Récamier , more than once entreat- ing that the packet she had so long cherished might be returned to her ; and intimating also , not obscurely , that the interview we have narrated had not been as agreeable to her as her ...
... Madame Récamier , more than once entreat- ing that the packet she had so long cherished might be returned to her ; and intimating also , not obscurely , that the interview we have narrated had not been as agreeable to her as her ...
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... Mme . Récamier , the Duc de Laval , who had resided there long , and was by no means willing to quit . Cha- teaubriand made some decorous and deprecatory hesita- tions , as he had done in 1823 ; but it was evident that he was bent on ...
... Mme . Récamier , the Duc de Laval , who had resided there long , and was by no means willing to quit . Cha- teaubriand made some decorous and deprecatory hesita- tions , as he had done in 1823 ; but it was evident that he was bent on ...
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Стр. 327 - This is the curse of life ! that not A nobler, calmer train Of wiser thoughts and feelings blot Our passions from our brain ; But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to fill, And we forget because we must And not because we will.
Стр. 66 - I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress...
Стр. 66 - I cannot, therefore, regard the stationary state of capital and wealth with the unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition.
Стр. 67 - But the best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.
Стр. 72 - Workmen there, in God's Eternity; surviving there, they alone surviving: sacred Band of the Immortals, celestial Bodyguard of the Empire of Mankind.
Стр. 197 - Je dois donc une tendre et éternelle reconnaissance à ma femme, dont l'attachement a été aussi touchant que profond et sincère. Elle a rendu ma vie plus grave, plus noble, plus honorable, en m'inspirant toujours le respect, sinon toujours la force des devoirs.
Стр. 59 - Of a truth, thou hast spoken many words; and there is no harm done, for the speaker is one and the listener is another. After the fashion of thy people thou hast wandered from one place to another until thou art happy and content in none.
Стр. 59 - Listen, oh my son ! There is no wisdom equal unto the belief in God! He created the world, and shall we liken ourselves unto him in seeking to penetrate into the mysteries of his creation? Shall we say, behold this star spinneth round that star, and this other star with a tail goeth and cometh in so many years! Let it go! He from whose hand it came will guide and direct it.
Стр. 67 - I know not why it should be matter of congratulation that persons who are already richer than any one needs to be, should have doubled their means of consuming things which give little or no pleasure except as representative of wealth...
Стр. 76 - ... prohibited, and the marriage of those who are not likely to possess the means of independent support is allowed by very few. Thus we are told that in Norway no one can marry without 'showing, to the satisfaction of the clergyman, that he is permanently settled in such a manner as to offer a fair prospect that he can maintain a family.