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Page 57
... Beauty and Meanness , and noble sentiment is the highest form of Beauty . He is beautiful in face , in port , in manners , who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself . Is there any parchment or any ...
... Beauty and Meanness , and noble sentiment is the highest form of Beauty . He is beautiful in face , in port , in manners , who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself . Is there any parchment or any ...
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... culti- vated men , only graceful manners , and independ- ence in trifles ; but the fountains of that thought are in the deeps of man , a beauty which reaches - through and through , from the manners to the soul 66 ARISTOCRACY .
... culti- vated men , only graceful manners , and independ- ence in trifles ; but the fountains of that thought are in the deeps of man , a beauty which reaches - through and through , from the manners to the soul 66 ARISTOCRACY .
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... beauty and honor of perseverance , he must reinforce himself by the power of character , and revisit the margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and enthusiasm , the fountain I mean of the moral sen- timents , the ...
... beauty and honor of perseverance , he must reinforce himself by the power of character , and revisit the margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and enthusiasm , the fountain I mean of the moral sen- timents , the ...
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... beauty for his innocent delight , and first or last he exhausts by his use all the harvests , all the powers of the world . For man , the receiver of all , and depositary of these volumes of power PERPETUAL FORCES . 77.
... beauty for his innocent delight , and first or last he exhausts by his use all the harvests , all the powers of the world . For man , the receiver of all , and depositary of these volumes of power PERPETUAL FORCES . 77.
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... beauty , no special viva- city , - but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone , but at night or at morning wherever she sits the inevitable circle gathers around her , willing prisoners of that wonderful memory and ...
... beauty , no special viva- city , - but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone , but at night or at morning wherever she sits the inevitable circle gathers around her , willing prisoners of that wonderful memory and ...
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Page 96 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Page 98 - Though Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, " 'T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Page 230 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Page 142 - ... lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret. By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing he may be hindered from his end and kept out of his own. Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Page 449 - The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them." "The locust z-ing." "Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow brook." "Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
Page 444 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before ; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Page 151 - A rule is so easy that it does not need a man to apply it ; an automaton, a machine, can be made to keep a school so. It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind, and to govern by steam. But it is at frightful cost. Our modes of Education aim to expedite, to save labor ; to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one : say rather, the whole...
Page 373 - England, and marks the precise time when the power of the old creed yielded to the influence of modern science and humanity. I have found that I could only bring you this portrait by selections from the diary of my heroine, premising a sketch of her time and place.
Page 336 - I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time too.
Page 352 - If the assembly was disorderly, it was picturesque. Madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers, Groaners, Agrarians, Seventh-day Baptists, Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians, and Philosophers, — all came successively to the top and seized their moment, if not their hour, wherein to chide, or pray, or preach, or protest.