Letters of Chauncey Wright: With Some Account of His Life

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Press of J. Wilson and son, 1877 - 392 pages
"This book has been prepared for certain friends of Chauncey Wright. The editor provides a selection of letters that would please those who knew Wright or had already been drawn to his essays. Even in so slight a sketch of life and character as is here undertaken it has seemed well to omit nothing within the editor's knowledge which might help to a just estimate of the man"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
 

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Page 29 - IT is not that my lot is low, That bids this silent tear to flow ; It is not grief that bids me moan ; It is that I am all alone. In woods and glens I love to roam, When the tired hedger hies him home ; Or by the woodland pool to rest, When pale the star looks on its breast. Yet when the silent evening sighs, With hallow'd airs and symphonies, My spirit takes another tone, And sighs that it is all alone.
Page 41 - ... blossoms that are weakly grown, Upon the air, but keepeth every one Whose strength gives warrant of good fruit at last : So thou hast shed some blooms of...
Page 155 - It is part of the irony of life, that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.
Page 240 - As your mind is so clear, and as you consider so carefully the meaning of words, I wish you would take some incidental occasion to consider when a thing may properly be said to be effected by the will of man.
Page 41 - THROUGH suffering and sorrow thou hast passed To show us what a woman true may be : They have not taken sympathy from thee, Nor made thee any other than thou wast, Save as some tree...
Page 310 - I am gone like the shadow when it declineth : I am tossed up and down as the locust. 24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. 25 I became also a reproach unto them : when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
Page 154 - One thing we may be certain of — that what is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play. The anxiety of mankind to interfere in behalf of nature, for fear lest nature should not succeed in effecting its purpose, is an altogether unnecessary solicitude.
Page 124 - The most profitable discussion is, after all, a study of other minds, — seeing how others see, rather than the dissection of mere propositions. The restatement of fundamental doctrines in new connections affords a parallax of their philosophical stand-points (unless these be buried in the infinite depths), which adds much to our knowledge of one another's thought.
Page 57 - Hence the assertion of Augustin : " Deum potius ignorantia quam scientia attingi." 3°, That there is a fundamental difference between The Infinite, (r& "EV xal Hav), and a relation to which we may apply the term infinite. Thus, Time and Space must be excluded from the supposed notion of The Infinite ; for The Infinite, if positively thought it could be, must be thought as under neither Space nor Time.
Page 276 - ... continuance, and increase of life itself. Questions concerning the uses of life he suggested could be solved by asking: To what ascertainable phase of life is this or that other phase of life valuable or serviceable? All forms of movement in life have some value in themselves; yet life in the widest sense is neither good nor evil, but the theatre of possible goods and evils. Hence, if any particular way of life becomes unbearable, not suicide, but the rational reorganization of the ends of life,...

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