Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1870 - 319 páginas
 

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Página 5 - CAN rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky, And tender to the spirit-touch Of man's or maiden's eye: But, to his native centre fast, Shall into Future fuse the Past, And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast.
Página 49 - The nobility cannot in any country be disguised, and no more in a republic or a democracy than in a kingdom. No man can resist their influence. There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he or she must be considered, and is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, or wealth, or genius. Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them,...
Página 76 - Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes, on hearing the report of one of his orations, " Had I been there, he would have persuaded me to take up arms against myself"; and • Iliad, in.
Página 106 - ... bottom ! I cry you mercy, good shoe-box ! I did not know you were a jewel-case. Chaff and dust begin to sparkle, and are clothed about with immortality. And there is a joy in perceiving the representative or symbolic character of a fact, which no bare fact or even* can ever give. There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
Página 18 - But books are good only as far as a boy is ready for them. He sometimes gets ready very slowly. You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.
Página 69 - Men take each other's measure, when they meet for the first time, — and every time they meet. How do they get this rapid knowledge, even before they speak, of each other's power and disposition ? One would say that the persuasion of their speech is not in what they say, — or that men do not convince by their argument, but by their personality, by who they are, and what they said and did heretofore.
Página 84 - The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth; his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind; and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him.
Página 66 - Rhamnusian, one of Plutarch's ten orators, advertised in Athens, " that he would cure distempers of the mind with words." No man has a prosperity so high or firm but two or three words can dishearten it. There is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress. Isocrates described his art as " the power of magnifying what was small and diminishing what was great, " — an acute but partial definition.
Página 44 - Trade with its money ; if Art with its portfolios ; if Science with her telegraphs through the deeps of space and time ; can set his dull nerves throbbing, and by loud taps on the tough chrysalis, can break its walls, and let the new creature emerge erect and free, — make way, and sing peean ! The age of the quadruped is to go out, — the age of the brain and of the heart is to come in.
Página 87 - I did never observe how much easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him, than in him; for, though he spoke indeed excellent well, yet his manner and freedom of doing it, as if he played with it, and was informing only all the rest of the company, was mighty pretty...

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