Essays in CriticismMacmillan and Company, 1895 - Всего страниц: 379 |
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... French Revolution and its age should not have come a crop of works of genius equal to that which came out of the stir of the great pro- ductive time of Greece , or out of that of the Renas- cence , with its powerful episode the ...
... French Revolution and its age should not have come a crop of works of genius equal to that which came out of the stir of the great pro- ductive time of Greece , or out of that of the Renas- cence , with its powerful episode the ...
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... French Revolu- tion , however , that object of so much blind love and so much blind hatred , -found undoubtedly its motive - power in the intelligence of men , and not in their practical sense ; this is what distinguishes it from the ...
... French Revolu- tion , however , that object of so much blind love and so much blind hatred , -found undoubtedly its motive - power in the intelligence of men , and not in their practical sense ; this is what distinguishes it from the ...
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... French Revolution derives from the force , truth , and universality of the ideas which it took for its law , and from the passion with which it could inspire a multitude for these ideas , a unique and still living power ; it is - it ...
... French Revolution derives from the force , truth , and universality of the ideas which it took for its law , and from the passion with which it could inspire a multitude for these ideas , a unique and still living power ; it is - it ...
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... French are often for suppressing the one and the English the other ; but neither is to be suppressed . A member of the House of Commons said to me the other day : " That a thing is an anomaly , I consider to be no objection to it ...
... French are often for suppressing the one and the English the other ; but neither is to be suppressed . A member of the House of Commons said to me the other day : " That a thing is an anomaly , I consider to be no objection to it ...
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... French Revolution ; and its move- ment of ideas , by quitting the intellectual sphere and rushing furiously into the political sphere , ran , indeed , a prodigious and memorable course , but produced no such intellectual fruit as the ...
... French Revolution ; and its move- ment of ideas , by quitting the intellectual sphere and rushing furiously into the political sphere , ran , indeed , a prodigious and memorable course , but produced no such intellectual fruit as the ...
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Стр. 319 - Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way. 9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.) 10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go.
Стр. 140 - If Thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss : O LORD, who may abide it?
Стр. 341 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee; but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Стр. 15 - If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear, every hope will forward it; and then they who persist in opposing this mighty current in human affairs, will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men. They will not be resolute and firm, but perverse and obstinate.
Стр. 76 - Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again!
Стр. 359 - From my brother Severus, to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love justice; and through him I learned to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, Brutus; and from him I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed...
Стр. 19 - Its business is to do this with inflexible honesty, with due ability ; but its business is to do no more, and to leave alone all questions of practical consequences and applications, questions which will never fail to have due prominence given to them.
Стр. 18 - By keeping aloof from what is called " the practical view of things ; " by resolutely following the law of its own nature, which is to be a free play of the mind on all subjects which it touches.
Стр. 279 - I cannot build a house for my ideas," said he; "I have tried to do without words, and words take their revenge on me by their difficulty." "If there is a man upon earth tormented by the cursed desire to get a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and this 5 phrase into one word, — that man is myself.
Стр. 225 - He traversed the desert of Arabia with a timorous retinue of women and children ; but as he approached the confines of Irak he was alarmed by the solitary or hostile face of the country, and suspected either the defection or ruin of his party. His fears were just: Obeidollah, the governor of Cufa, had...