Complete WorksHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1899 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 14
Page 98
... married . He had great modesty and gentle- ness of bearing . His habits were simple ; he lived on bread , milk and vegetables ; he lived in a house situated in a large garden ; he went several times to England , where he does not seem ...
... married . He had great modesty and gentle- ness of bearing . His habits were simple ; he lived on bread , milk and vegetables ; he lived in a house situated in a large garden ; he went several times to England , where he does not seem ...
Page 105
... marriage , here is fruit . And there is no limit to this ascending scale , but series on se- ries . Every thing , at the end of one use , is taken up into the next , each series punctually repeating every SWEDENBORG ; OR , THE MYSTIC . 105.
... marriage , here is fruit . And there is no limit to this ascending scale , but series on se- ries . Every thing , at the end of one use , is taken up into the next , each series punctually repeating every SWEDENBORG ; OR , THE MYSTIC . 105.
Page 118
... married , when he fell sick and when he died , and , for the rest , never in- terfered with him , here was a teaching which accompanied him all day , accompanied him even into sleep and dreams ; into his thinking , and showed him ...
... married , when he fell sick and when he died , and , for the rest , never in- terfered with him , here was a teaching which accompanied him all day , accompanied him even into sleep and dreams ; into his thinking , and showed him ...
Page 120
... marriages of the world are broken up . In- teriors associate all in the spiritual world . What- ever the angels looked upon was to them celestial . Each Satan appears to himself a man ; to those as bad as he , a comely man ; to the ...
... marriages of the world are broken up . In- teriors associate all in the spiritual world . What- ever the angels looked upon was to them celestial . Each Satan appears to himself a man ; to those as bad as he , a comely man ; to the ...
Page 122
... marriage . Of this book one would say that with the highest elements it has failed of success . It came near to be the Hymn of Love , which Plato attempted in the " Banquet ; " the love , which , Dante says , Casella sang among the ...
... marriage . Of this book one would say that with the highest elements it has failed of success . It came near to be the Hymn of Love , which Plato attempted in the " Banquet ; " the love , which , Dante says , Casella sang among the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action admirable affirms angels animal appears astronomy battle of Austerlitz beauty believe Ben Jonson body Bonaparte brain celestial church comes conversation courage culture dæmons delight divine doctrine earth English Europe exist experience expression eyes fact faith fame genius Goethe heaven hero human ideas intel intellectual king knew labor learned less Leucippus live Lord Elgin mankind marriage means merit mind Mirabeau modern Montaigne Napoleon nature ness never numbers opinion organ original party perception Pericles persons Phædo philosopher plant Plato Platonist play Plotinus Plutarch poet poetic poetry religion saint scholar secret seems sense sentence Seven Wise Masters Shakspeare Shakspeare's skepticism society Socrates soul speak spirit stand Swedenborg talent things thought tion treach truth unity universal vertebræ virtue Vishnu whilst whole wisdom wise write
Popular passages
Page 12 - I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty ; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light and in large relations, whilst they must make painful corrections and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
Page 12 - He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Page 86 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Page 49 - Philosophy is the account which the human mind gives to itself of the constitution of the world.
Page 226 - ... for creation. We are always in peril, always in a bad plight, just on the edge of destruction and only to be saved by invention and courage. This vigor was guarded and tempered by the coldest prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage, but the result of calculation. His idea of the best defence consists in being still the attacking party. " My ambition," he says, " was great, but was...
Page 189 - It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it ; and of him who can adequately place it.
Page 197 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 160 - The Essays, therefore, are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into his head ; treating everything without ceremony, yet with masculine sense. There have been men with deeper insight ; but, one would say, never a man with such abundance of thoughts : he is never dull, never insincere, and has the genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for.
Page 156 - Essays. I heard with pleasure that one of the newly-discovered autographs of William Shakespeare was in a copy of Florio's translation of Montaigne. It is the only book which we certainly know to have been in the poet's library.
Page 152 - Let us have a robust, manly life ; let us know what we know, for certain ; what we have, let it be solid and seasonable and our own. A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. Let us have to do with real men and women, and not with skipping ghosts.