Representative Men: Seven LecturesH.G. Bohn, 1850 - 143 pages |
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Page 3 - He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Page 52 - 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 27 - Philosophy is the account which the human mind gives to itself of the constitution of the world.
Page 162 - The air is full of sounds; the sky, of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered over with hints, which speak to the intelligent.
Page 175 - Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book ; a personality •which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise; holding things because they are things.
Page 147 - I ordered Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse;' and with these he separated the six thousand Hungarian grenadiers before the very eyes of the Austrian cavalry. This cavalry was half a league off, and required a quarter of an hour to arrive on the field of action; and I have observed that it is always these quarters of an hour that decide the fate of a battle.
Page 5 - ... are yet used by our arts ! The mass of creatures and of qualities are still hid and expectant. It would seem as if each waited, like the enchanted princess in fairy tales, for a destined human deliverer. Each must be disenchanted, and walk forth to the day in human shape.
Page 92 - Wer nicht liebt wein, weib, und gesang, Der bleibt ein narr sein leben lang ;-' and when he advised a young scholar perplexed with fore-ordination and free-will, to get well drunk.
Page 177 - He has no aims less large than the conquest of universal nature, of universal truth, to be his portion: a man not to be bribed, nor deceived, nor overawed; of a stoical selfcommand and self-denial, and having one test for all men, — What can you teach me? All possessions are valued by him for that only; rank, privileges, health, time, being itself. He is the type of culture, the amateur of all arts, and sciences, and events; artistic, but not artist; spiritual, but not spiritualist.
Page 127 - 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?