...such an extreme that he tried almost to do without words. " If there is a man on earth," said he, " tormented by the cursed desire to get a whole book...this phrase into one word, — that man is myself." The ambition of many American speakers, and not a few writers, is apparently the reverse of this. We...

...words revenge/ themselves by difficulty. If there is a man tormented by the cursed ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and this phrase into a word, it is I. Certain parts spring up in me naturally, too finished to allow me to dispense with...

...miniature-painting of himself: — If ever a man was tormented by the accursed ambition of putting a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, I am that man. It will be said that I speak with .-subtlety. This is sometimes...

...miniature-painting of himself :— If ever a man was tormented by the accursed ambition of putting a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, I am that man. It will be said that I speak with subtlety. This is sometimes...

...of matter and of style. Said Joubert : " If there is a man tormented by the accursed ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, it is I." Little wonder that Joubert has succeeded La Rochefoucauld as the...

...suffered from what a famous writer of aphorisms in our time has described as " the cursed ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and the phrase into a word." But the moral thought itself in Tacitus mostly belongs less to the practical...

...the literary form of his work : If there exists a man tormented by the accursed ambition of putting a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, that man is myself. Joubert was a natural unchangeable classicist in taste...

...conquered ! " Brevity is forceful. " If there is a man on earth," said Joubert, " tormented by the desire to get a whole book into a page, a whole page...phrase, and this phrase into one word, — that man is myself."1 In contrast to such desire for concentration of energy is the prevailing American tendency...

...and Emerson might say, even more than Joubert, that if any man ever lived who made it his aim to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and a whole phrase into a word, he is that man. (.S"i7 est un homme tourmente par la maudite ambition dc...

...that are not clear is very narrow. II. If ever a man was tormented by the accursed ambition of putting a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, I am that man. 12. It will be said that I speak with subtlety. This is sometimes...