Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 38
Page 9
... spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as ...
... spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as ...
Page 10
... spirit to the man- ifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a ...
... spirit to the man- ifold world . This human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a ...
Page 18
... Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- mant streams into soft but precise form before it , and whilst I look at it its outline and texture 18 HISTORY .
... Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- mant streams into soft but precise form before it , and whilst I look at it its outline and texture 18 HISTORY .
Page 21
... spirit and not the fact that is identical . By a deeper appre- hension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity . It has been said ...
... spirit and not the fact that is identical . By a deeper appre- hension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity . It has been said ...
Page 26
... itinerancy of the present day . The antagonism of the two tenden- cies is not less active in individuals , as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predom- inate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits 26 HISTORY .
... itinerancy of the present day . The antagonism of the two tenden- cies is not less active in individuals , as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predom- inate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits 26 HISTORY .
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action affection appear beautiful soul beauty become behold better black event Bonduca Cæsar character conversation divine doctrine earth Egypt Epaminondas ergy eternal evanescent experience fable fact fear feel friendship genius gifts give Greek hand heart heaven Heraclitus heroism hour human intel intellect less light live look man's marriage ment mind moral nature never noble object OVER-SOUL painted pass perception perfect persons Petrarch Phidias Phocion picture Pindar Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry prudence relations religion Rome sculpture secret seek seems seen sense sensual sentiment Shakspeare society Socrates Sophocles soul speak Spinoza spirit stand Stoicism sweet talent teach tence thee things thou thought tion to-day to-morrow true truth ture universal virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words Xenophon youth