...easy ; but as one goes deep into things, one must still keep a charm, and one must carry into thes« dark depths of thought, into which speculation has...whole page into a phrase, and this phrase into one word — that man is myself." " I can sow, but I cannot build." Joubert, however, makes no claim to...

...of one's time in setting up one's ideal standard of perfection, and in contemplating it. •! oubert himself knew this very well : " I cannot build a house...whole page into a phrase, and this phrase into one word — that man is myself." " I can sow, but I cannot build." Joubert, however, makes no claim to...

...One must never quit sight of realities, and one must employ one's expressions simply as media, — as glasses, through which one's thoughts can be best...whole page into a phrase, and this phrase into one word, — that man is myself.' ' I can sow, but I cannot build.' Joubert, however, makes no claim to...

...such an extreme that he tried almost to do without words. " If there is a man on earth," said he, " tormented by the cursed desire to get a whole book...whole page into a phrase, and this phrase into one word, — that man is myself." The ambition of many American speakers, and not a few writers, is apparently...

...words revenge/ themselves by difficulty. If there is a man tormented by the cursed ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and this phrase into a word, it is I. Certain parts spring up in me naturally, too finished to allow me to dispense with...

...miniature-painting of himself :— If ever a man was tormented by the accursed ambition of putting a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, I am that man. It will be said that I speak with subtlety. This is sometimes...

...miniature-painting of himself: — If ever a man was tormented by the accursed ambition of putting a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, I am that man. It will be said that I speak with .-subtlety. This is sometimes...

...of matter and of style. Said Joubert : " If there is a man tormented by the accursed ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, it is I." Little wonder that Joubert has succeeded La Rochefoucauld as the...

...suffered from what a famous writer of aphorisms in our time has described as " the cursed ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and the phrase into a word." But the moral thought itself in Tacitus mostly belongs less to the practical...

...the literary form of his work : If there exists a man tormented by the accursed ambition of putting a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, that man is myself. Joubert was a natural unchangeable classicist in taste...