The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 5David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler |
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... universe and of life in the universe . What is good and evil ? Is it one and the same thing in different forms ? Why do we live at all ? Why do others live and strive to help us or to hurt us ? Why do the gods find pleasure in our lives ...
... universe and of life in the universe . What is good and evil ? Is it one and the same thing in different forms ? Why do we live at all ? Why do others live and strive to help us or to hurt us ? Why do the gods find pleasure in our lives ...
Page 1709
... universe be turned topsy - turvy , destroyed , and annihilated ; and even let there be no mind to reason about beings , lines , circles , and triangles : yet it will ever be equally true in itself , that the same thing cannot at once be ...
... universe be turned topsy - turvy , destroyed , and annihilated ; and even let there be no mind to reason about beings , lines , circles , and triangles : yet it will ever be equally true in itself , that the same thing cannot at once be ...
Page 1714
... have no longer any heart for the perishable , the universe appears to my eye in a transfigured form . The dead , inert mass which but choked up space has vanished ; 1714 JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE The Glory and Beauty of the Supernatural.
... have no longer any heart for the perishable , the universe appears to my eye in a transfigured form . The dead , inert mass which but choked up space has vanished ; 1714 JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE The Glory and Beauty of the Supernatural.
Page 1715
... universe , with a different aspect , as the same force which fashions my own body in darkness and in secret . Yonder it waves free , and leaps and dances as self - forming mo- tion in the brute ; and , in every new body , represents ...
... universe , with a different aspect , as the same force which fashions my own body in darkness and in secret . Yonder it waves free , and leaps and dances as self - forming mo- tion in the brute ; and , in every new body , represents ...
Page 1716
... universe is no longer to me that circle which returns into itself , that game which repeats itself without ceasing , that monster which devours itself in order to reproduce itself as it was before . It is spiritualized to my ...
... universe is no longer to me that circle which returns into itself , that game which repeats itself without ceasing , that monster which devours itself in order to reproduce itself as it was before . It is spiritualized to my ...
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Page 1770 - Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and He that riseth late must trot, all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let. not that drive thee; and Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise, as Poor Richard says.
Page 1885 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 1769 - I have been, if I may say it without vanity an eminent author of almanacks annually now a full quarter of a century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason I know not, have ever been very sparing in their applauses, and no other author has taken the least notice of me, so that did...
Page 1995 - I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish ; his...
Page 1807 - One lesson, and only one, history may be said to repeat with distinctness: that the world is built somehow on moral foundations; that, in the long run, it is well with the good; in the long run, it is ill with the wicked.
Page 1814 - 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...
Page 1773 - He means, that perhaps the cheapness is apparent only, and not real ; or the bargain, by straitening thee in thy business, may do thee more harm than good. For in another place he says, Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths.
Page 1772 - For want of a nail, the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe, the horse was lost, For want of a horse, the rider was lost, For want of a rider, the battle was lost.
Page 1770 - Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the key often used is always bright,' as poor Richard says. 'But dost thou love life' then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made 259 of,' as poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep ! forgetting, that 'the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave,1 as poor Richard says.
Page 1971 - Why, why was I born a man, and yet see the sufferings of wretches I cannot relieve ! Poor houseless creatures ! the world will give you reproaches, but will not give you relief.' The slightest misfor'tunes of the great, the most imaginary uneasiness of the rich, are aggravated with all the power of eloquence, and held up to engage our attention and sympathetic sorrow. The poor weep unheeded, persecuted by every subordinate species of tyranny ; and every law, which gives others security, becomes an...