Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 31
... Socrates , domesticate them- selves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . They are mine as much as theirs . I have seen the first monks and anchorets , with- out crossing seas or centuries . More than once some individual ...
... Socrates , domesticate them- selves in the mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . They are mine as much as theirs . I have seen the first monks and anchorets , with- out crossing seas or centuries . More than once some individual ...
Page 34
... Socrates and Shakspeare were not . Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules , but every time he touched his mother earth his strength was renewed . Man is the broken giant , and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are ...
... Socrates and Shakspeare were not . Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules , but every time he touched his mother earth his strength was renewed . Man is the broken giant , and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are ...
Page 58
... - day . — Ah , so you shall be sure to be misunderstood . ' Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood , and Socrates , and Jesus , and - 6 Luther , and Copernicus , and Galileo , and Newton 58 SELF - RELIANCE .
... - day . — Ah , so you shall be sure to be misunderstood . ' Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood , and Socrates , and Jesus , and - 6 Luther , and Copernicus , and Galileo , and Newton 58 SELF - RELIANCE .
Page 84
... Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are great men , but they leave no class . He who is really of their class will not be called by their name , but will be his own man , and in his turn the founder of a sect . The arts and inventions of ...
... Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are great men , but they leave no class . He who is really of their class will not be called by their name , but will be his own man , and in his turn the founder of a sect . The arts and inventions of ...
Page 241
... Socrates's condemnation of himself to be main- tained in all honor in the Prytaneum , during his life , and Sir Thomas More's playfulness at the scaffold , are of the same strain . In Beaumont and Fletcher's " Sea Voyage , " Juletta ...
... Socrates's condemnation of himself to be main- tained in all honor in the Prytaneum , during his life , and Sir Thomas More's playfulness at the scaffold , are of the same strain . In Beaumont and Fletcher's " Sea Voyage , " Juletta ...
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